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Edna Buchanan

Edna Buchanan worked the Miami Herald police beat for eighteen years, during which she won scores of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for Career Achievement in Journalism. Edna attracted international acclaim for her... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. 1.The person most likely to murder you sits across the breakfast table. Your nearest and dearest, the one who sleeps on the pillow next to yours and shares your checking account, can be far more lethal than any sinister stranger lurking in the shadow. Love...
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By Edna Buchanan - November 7, 2011
BOOKS & BOOKS

265 Aragon Avenue

Coral Gables< Florida 33134

305-422-4408

 

November 8, 2011

8 PM

Edna will introduce her new book, A Dark and Lonely Place, on the 11thShe will be available to sign books after the talk.  Please join us for an entertaining evening.

 

This month marks the centennial of the fatal shooting that launched John Ashley’s legend. The bullet that took a life ricocheted into a series of prison breaks, bloody battles, and a historic gun fight on the dusty streets of what is now modern Miami. What if the real John Ashley and his sweetheart, Laura, had direct descendants, lovers who faced the same damning and dangerous events in Miami today? How would their story end? How powerful is the past? Can those of us with the outlaw imprint of violence and tragedy in our DNA break the cycle? Or, must the end always be the same for daring people in perilous places?