Edna Buchanan, the Pulitzer Prize winning crime reporter from Miami is fairly hardboiled. Wendy Hornsby, whose series character Maggie MacGowen is a documentary filmmaker involved with an LAPD cop is tough as nails and bawdy to boot. Vicki Hendricks' first novel MIAMI PURITY is an absolute scorcher. Rarely does one come across a female protagonist such as the one found within these pages who is as hormonally driven as your typical male noir fall guy. - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca