Contents Under Pressure

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…