Biography

Buchanan was born "Edna Rydzik" in Paterson, New Jersey. She attended Montclair State College. As one of the first female crime journalists in Miami, she wrote for the Miami Beach Daily Sun and The Miami Herald as a general assignment and police beat reporter. She won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting "for her versatile and consistently excellent police beat reporting".

Her book Miami, It's Murder was nominated for an Edgar Award in 1995.

Buchanan was embarrassed in 1990 when she was quoted extensively in the book Blue Thunder: How the Mafia Owned and Finally Murdered Cigarette Boat King Donald Aronow, by Thomas Burdick and Charlene Mitchell.

Burdick ... led her to believe that he was seeking only background information, never used a tape recorder or took notes, asked her to hypothesize about people and situations, then quoted her as if she were stating fact.

According to Buchanan, she tried to have her name and the quotes removed from the book after she read the galley proofs, but she was told by the publisher that it was too late.

Books

Fiction

Nobody Lives Forever, 1990 Contents under Pressure, 1992 Miami, It's Murder, 1994 Suitable for Framing, 1995 Act of Betrayal, 1996 Naked Came the Manatee (Putnam, 1996), by Buchanan and 12 others

Margin of Error, 1997 Pulse, 1998 Garden of Evil: a Britt Montero mystery, 1999 You Only Die Twice, 2001 The Ice Maiden, 2002 Cold Case Squad, 2004 Shadows, 2005 Love Kills: a Britt Montero novel, 2007 Legally Dead, 2008 A Dark and Lonely Place, 2011

Nonfiction

• Carr, Five Years of Rape and Murder: from the personal account of Robert Frederick Carr III, 1979
• The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat, 1987
• Never Let Them See You Cry: More from Miami, America's Hottest Beat, 1992
• Vice: Life and Death on the Streets of Miami, 1992

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