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Title: Garden of Evil : A Britt Montero Novel by Edna Buchanan ISBN: 0-380-79841-7 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.35 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Britt knows her beat...and so does Buchanan!
Comment:
This is my first encounter with Edna Buchanan's alter-ego, Britt Montero. Personally, I could never get past all the purchased (read: wigs) hair Buchanan wears for interviews and book tours, so I just didn't take her seriously enough to purchase her work.
The lady's obviously very bright, having won the Pulitzer, and she has the experience and talent to write about the underbelly of Miami, so why hide under all that obviously fake hair?
With that said....
I read the liner notes for this book and was intrigued that the serial killer was female and very, very good at what she does.
I disagree with Montero's decision that there is an "evil" gene. Mabye it was the sex at six years old that turned Keppie...or her mother's past....or the fact that she grew up unloved and unwanted...or maybe she saw what her mother did to those men...or mabye it was the taunt of the kids at school that first gave her the lust for blood.
I didn't have sympathy for Keppie, but I could certainly understand how she might be wired differently from the rest of the world.
I read the book in one sitting, and although I had some serious doubt about Britt's reluctance to free herself from the hostage situation, I liked the story and look forward to reading more about Britt's life as a reporter in a city that certainly contains a lot of dark and humid secrets yet to be told.
Enjoy!
Rating: 4
Summary: Dark departure for Britt Montero
Comment: Edna Buchanan's latest Britt Montero novel is very different sans the usual suspects; e.g., Cuban patriots and expatriates. This time out, newspaperwoman Britt goes one on one with a female serial killer as she cuts a bloody swath across Florida. Killer Keppie Lee Hutton is about as warped a character as ever penned by the inimitable Ms. Buchanan. Her main criterion for killing is the mere existence of men who, responding to her sexy mannerisms and seductive come-ons, make love to her. Once the deed is done, this gruesome Southern black widow dispatches them painfully and messily. Her progress across the state into Miami, Britt's bailiwick, is charted by the missing vehicle of each new victim, since the previous victims' wheels are always found near the latest crime scene. Sound familiar? Keppie Lee has a dark and deadly past and a shocking family secret which Britt discovers only after she and a small child are taken as hostages on a joy ride from hell. Britt not only has the little boy to protect from Keppie's murderous mood swings, but is forced to fend off Keppie's amorous advances while helplessly watching this sick puppy scope out her new victims. Quick thinking and a 1-time window of opportunity provides Britt exactly 1 chance to save herself and the boy.
Keppie is finally captured in Barbados and, in a jailhouse confrontation back in Miami, reveals to Britt her final secret and ace in the hole, providing for a shocking but ambiguous ending. We may see Keppie Lee Hutton again.
This book is well plotted, quick paced, distressingly plausible and, while perhaps not one of Buchanan's best, is nonetheless highly entertaining and recommended.
Rating: 4
Summary: A shocker about three women
Comment: First there's Britt, our heroine. A self-actualized reporter enjoying her career and her on again/off again affair with a cop. Then there's Althea, the discarded trophy wife whose claims of being in peril are dismissed by everyone, including her family, as a pathetic plea for attention. Then there's Keppie, the sexpot serial killer (perhaps based on Aileen Wornoss -- sp?). What a thrill ride! As a fiction reader, I would have preferred it if Buchanan had tied up the loose ends a bit better -- was Britt ever investigated for the role as Keppie's accomplice, whatever happened to young Joey, does Keppie ever meet what seems to be her ultimate fate? But maybe the author handled it this way because this is how life is ... we don't always get the answers we want when we want them.
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Title: You Only Die Twice: A Novel by Edna Buchanan ISBN: 0380798425 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Miami, It's Murder : A Britt Montero Novel by Edna Buchanan ISBN: 0380722615 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Contents Under Pressure : A Britt Montero Novel by Edna Buchanan ISBN: 0380722607 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Pulse by Edna Buchanan ISBN: 0380728338 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Margin of Error by Edna Buchanan ISBN: 0786889314 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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