Shadows: A Novel - Hardcover

Buchanan, Edna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743250559 ISBN 13: 9780743250559

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2005

Synopsis

Forty-five years after the unsolved shooting of a former mayor at a waterfront property, the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad reopens the case, which has strange ties to a conflict between a young preservationist and developers who would turn the property into a series of high rises. 75,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Edna Buchanan worked The Miami Herald police beat for eighteen years, during which she won scores of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for Career Achievement in Journalism. Edna attracted international acclaim for her classic true-crime memoirs, The Corpse Has a Familiar Face and Never Let Them See You Cry. Her first novel of suspense, Nobody Lives Forever, was nominated for an Edgar Award.

From Publishers Weekly:

Saving Shadows, a historic Miami waterfront estate that's about to be bulldozed—annoying preservationists and reopening a 45-year-old unsolved murder—isn't enough to rescue its novel namesake. Staying in familiar Miami territory, Buchanan brings back the crew from Cold Case Squad for this outing: Miami PD Sgt. Craig Burch and ragtag detectives Sam Stone, Pete Nazario and, this time, Joe Corso. Watched closely by their lieutenant and by the press, Burch and posse focus on the unsolved 1961 murder of Pierce Nolan, a legendary local scion and former mayor killed by a shotgun blast. With the help of Kiki Courtelis, an anxious preservationist, the team gains access to his long-shuttered estate—only to conveniently discover an antique trunk full of infant corpses. Subplots are forced: Nazario has instant feelings for Kiki; Stone spontaneously avenges the death of his parents; the workings of an illegal adoption ring comes to light. Retired journalist Buchanan (You Only Die Twice) is a longtime Miami resident who won a Pulitzer Prize for her police reporting, but this outing lacks her usual attention to plot and detail. And there's not enough emotional motivation for cozy fans or real estate porn for historic house junkies. (June)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743250559
• ISBN 13: 9780743250559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272