Contents Under Pressure
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 310
- ISBN-13
- 9780671850975
- Type
- novel
About this book
Contents Under Pressure opens the Britt Montero series in 1992, introducing the Cuban-American police reporter Edna Buchanan drew straight from her own two decades on the Miami Herald's police beat -- reporting that won Buchanan a Pulitzer Prize.
Key facts about Contents Under Pressure
Edna Buchanan wrote Contents Under Pressure, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1992. The book has 310 pages.
We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780671850975 to find the main one.
Contents Under Pressure is book 1 of 10 in the Britt Montero series. The series has 10 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Edna Buchanan writes Craig Burch as a separate series. Those series sit on our mystery shelf. Meanwhile, Dead Man's Daughter is the latest published Edna Buchanan book on file, from August 2018.
About Edna Buchanan
Edna Buchanan was born March 16, 1939, in Paterson, New Jersey. She joined the Miami Herald's police beat in 1973 and spent nearly two decades chronicling the city's murders and mayhem with a reporting style that became legendary in newsrooms for its unsparing, often darkly funny precision -- famous opening lines like "Gary Robinson died hungry" set the standard for the genre. See every Edna Buchanan book in order.
Its place in Britt Montero
Contents Under Pressure is book 1 in the Britt Montero series. It is followed by Miami, It's Murder. See the full Britt Montero reading order.
Britt Montero is a Cuban-American police reporter for a thinly fictionalized Miami newspaper -- and Edna Buchanan's most direct piece of fiction, drawn straight from her own two decades on the Miami Herald's police beat. Book after book, Britt works crime scenes and courtrooms as a journalist rather than a cop or PI, chasing down the story behind Miami's murders with sources, instinct, and a reporter's stubborn refusal to let a case go cold -- the same qualities that won Buchanan a Pulitzer Prize for her real…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780671850975
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780380722600
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781626812468