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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING REPORTER EDNA BUCHANAN'S GRITTY WORK AS A MIAMI CRIME REPORTER INFORMS THIS ELECTRIFYING AND BONE-CHILLING NOVEL OF SUSPENSE.
A man and a woman are shot dead at a strip club in Miami Beach. A few hours later, an explosion rocks a child's birthday party, killing a father of three. The murders go unsolved and the blast is deemed an accident. Twelve years later, a blonde walks into the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad. She's been seeing her husband everywhere she goes. Trouble is, he's been dead for twelve years. Buchanan's crack team of detectives -- a dedicated, complicated crew with problems all their own -- is on the case in this brilliant, edge-of-your-seat read.
- Sales Rank: #2525459 in Books
- Published on: 2005-05-01
- Released on: 2005-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x 1.00" w x 4.19" l, .38 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 368 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Usual series heroine Britt Montero (The Ice Maiden; You Only Die Twice) is nowhere to be seen as Buchanan focuses instead on the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad, led by Sgt. Craig Burch: "I breathe new life into old, cold cases and track killers whose trails vanished long ago like footprints on a sea washed beach." Burch is backed by detectives Sam Stone and Pete Nazario and takes orders from Lt. K.C. Riley, who is grieving the death of ex-lover, Kendall McDonald. In fact, all of the squad members have problems both on and off the force, subplots that play out alongside the several murders that command most of the attention. Detective Stone is on the trail of a serial killer who specializes in old ladies, laying the bodies out in meticulously composed death scenes. Stone suspects the killer is an orthodox Jew, clued in by his feisty grandma, who used to work for a Jewish family. The chief case is 12 years old and involves Charles Terrell, who everyone thought was accidentally blown up while working on his car. This cold case heats up quickly when the team chases down Terrell's sexy ex-wife, Natasha, who's dallying with her gardener, Nelson, a naïve Cuban immigrant who provides an amusing Carl Hiassen-like chase scene toward the end. With Buchanan's practiced expertise, all the cases eventually get solved, and the squad's personal problems are either squared away or kept in abeyance for another installment. Buchanan's memorable characters strut their wacky stuff, but, as always, it's the fascinating, hothouse city of Miami that's the real star of the show.
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From Booklist
Buchanan launches a new series with this novel, starring Sergeant Craig Burch of the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad. Fans of Buchanan's Britt Montero series may recognize Burch as the cop who helped crime reporter Montero solve a cold case in The Ice Maiden (2002). Although Burch made a superb supporting character, in his first role as the lead, he comes off a bit like a newborn colt on shaky legs. Buchanan has given him the traditional backstory of the homicide cop so haunted by his work that his family life unravels, but he needs considerably more fleshing out if he is going to become a fully formed character. In addition, his first-person narration is wince-producing, a collection of Chandleresque cliches ("Like all things good and bad in the world, it began with a woman") and strained alliterations ("booze, broads, and busted marriages"). Buchanan is on more solid ground with plot and forensic procedure. The ex-wife of a man who was blown to bits while working on his vintage Thunderbird 12 years previously seeks the aid of the Cold Case Squad. The mystery is intensified by the ex-wife's conviction that her deceased husband may still be alive. Despite the missteps, this may yet develop into an intriguing series, and with Buchanan's name on it, it's sure to attract interest. Connie Fletcher
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Review
"An endless carnical of crime."
-- Kirkus Reviews (Starred)
"With dead-on forensic science, police procedural, and human foibles, Edna knows Miami and she knows cops, and there isn't an author who can touch her for sultry and tropical mystery."
-- Ann Rule
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Favorite Author, Minor Work
By David Cady
I'm a big Edna Buchanan fan, and have never understood why her Britt Montero books haven't reached the kind of audience that other equally good, but more successful authors have (namely Sue Grafton and Janet Evanovich). The woman writes snappy, twisty, evocative crime novels that bring Miami to vibrant life and always keep me guessing. So I was looking forward to "Cold Case Squad," even with Britt Montero nowhere in sight. Unhappily, I have to say that this latest of Buchanan's endeavors is half-baked at best. The cases are certainly interesting enough, and there are some suprises, but halfway through the book, it seems as if Buchanan all but gives up on the narrative. The writing becomes choppy, with some scenes only lasting a small paragraph or two, with the result that the book starts to read like an outline for a screenplay instead of a novel. And stylistically the book is very odd, with half of the scenes involving Detective Burch told in his own voice, and the rest written in the third person. Buchanan may have had a reason for the device, but if so it's not readily apparent. If anything it suggests she didn't have a clear idea of how to tell her story. But, hey, it's always good to have an Edna Buchanan book on the bedside table, even if "Cold Case Squad" left me...well, cold.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
> Cold Squid
By Stoney
TEASERS
Teasers are a loathsome device intended to snare bookstore browsers with up front action. The primary effect of most teasers is to confuse and mislead the readers. Buchanan exacerbates this confusion and misdirection with TWO unnecessary teasers. In the first teaser, a nightclub owner is robbed and killed in his office by "Buddy". In the second teaser, a home garage explodes, across the street from a birthday party.
THE SETUP
The story begins 12 years later when April Tyrell reports to the Miami Cold Case Squad that her ex-husband Charles (the fellow believed to have died in the garage explosion) is "haunting her dreams" and that she sees him, "everywhere". Policewoman Lt Casey Riley orders the squad to investigate, and they soon concentrate on "Natasha", who was Charles' wife at the time, and who has since gone through a series of husbands.
Numerous side-stories go on simultaneously, many of which may be incomprehensible to new readers who have not read earlier novels in the series. Casey is grieving over detective MacDonald, who was recently killed in an explosion. Sargent Craig Birch is having problems with a crazy vindictive wife. Detective Sam Stone, while worrying about his aged grandmother, is pursuing a serial killer of old women.
CAVEATS
"Cold Case Squad" is a "Britt Montero novel", in which Britt is mentioned only as "the reporter", and no character takes her place as the primary protagonist, or is developed in her absence.
The metaphysical theme of Charles haunting April is unnecessary. I happen to believe in the supernatural, but I do not enjoy the intrusion of the supernatural into rational mystery novels.
No allusion to the first teaser appears until past the half-way point in the novel. And even that is to the effect that a innocent guy was executed for the murders. At about the 4/5 point, the first teaser becomes relevant, but by that time chances are that the reader has forgotten pertinent details.
"Cold Case Squad" contains several dozen named characters, far too many for readers to keep track of. Meaningless factoids, in lieu of any actual character development, are recited for most of the characters, even those who have a single appearance on a single page. One such character's grandfather was a flamenco dance.
Lack of character differentiation (much less character development) is particularly acute for the numerous interchangeable police-persons, in which case irrelevant factoids from earlier novels are recited, such as the fact that one of the detectives was a Pedro Pan kid, and another detective's parents ran a barbecue stand when he was a kid. These facts were relevant in the corresponding earlier novels, but irrelevant in "Cold Case Squad". Of course, most fans of the series will remember the major characters from earlier novels, but that is no excuse for the minimal character development in "Cold Case Squad".
Most of the narration is by the traditional "third person omniscient anonymous narrator". However, very occasionally, and completely unnecessarily, Police Sargent Craig Birch barges in as a first person narrator for a paragraph or two--in first person when referring to himself, although randomly shifting between present and past tense--and in third person when describing others' actions. There is no recognizable transition between Birch's third person narration and when the "anonymous narrator" takes over. Frequently, the reader has no way to know who the narrator is. This is not a trivial matter, it is amateurish writing and abominable editing.
At the end of "Cold Case Squad" Birch reconciles with his his insane vindictive wife. What a freaking doormat! The main character in the similar Buchanan novel "Pulse" does the same thing. I guess Buchanan thinks men should be spineless doormats.
It particularly annoys me that the narrator of the audio-version cannot pronounce many ordinary words correctly. Terrazzo is "ter-raaz-zo" NOT "tear-rat-so. NOAA is "Noah" NOT "No-ha". Charles "Bebe" Rebozo (friend of Richard Nixon) is "Bee-bee", not "bay-bay". The City of Hialeah, is "Hi-a-lee-ah" not Hi-a-lay-ah"
VERDICT
A good read, but not Buchanan's best
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Intriguing Plot with Confusing Character Development
By Donald Mitchell
Ms. Buchanan has written a book that clearly makes it out of the infield as a single. Based on the plot, Cold Case Squad could have been a home run. If Ms. Buchanan decides to continue this book as a series, I predict that the next book will be much more successful.
Each of the members of the cold case squad has a secret pain which is well known to the members of the squad . . . but kept from the reader until later in the book. Presumably, the pain must have been revealed in The Ice Maiden. As a result, a lot of the references are mysterious until the pains are disclosed later in the book. If the sources of that pain had been revealed sooner in this book, Cold Case Squad would have worked a lot better. Instead, there's a false feeling about the story telling. Now that I know what the secret pains are, the next book will be easier for me to follow.
As a result, you may want to consider reading The Ice Maiden before this book.
As the story opens, we are given a flash back into an old crime. Three deaths occur in a short period of time, but we don't know if they are all connected or not.
Moving forward to the present, a widow, April Terrell, comes into the cold case squad complaining that she keeps seeing someone who reminds her of her dead husband, who died 12 years earlier in an accident. Lieutenant K.C. Riley impulsively pulls her squad off of their current cases to crash on this one as a suspected homicide. Why? You'll find out before the book ends. But the investigation is an intriguing police procedural.
In the background, the detectives make headway in finding a serial killer who has been following a bizarre ritual. I found this part of the story the most satisfying.
One of the attractive parts of the plot is that it relies on the benefit of fresh perspectives on old problems to solve the cases. I thought that that approach was both realistic and interesting.
The character development of the squad leaves something to be desired, but their ascribed backgrounds are certainly colorful.
Good luck with the next book, Ms. Buchanan!
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