Miami Requiem

This book by Turner is a good mystery, thriller. The main character is a female, a black female who is trying to make her way in the world. As a reporter she works very hard to figure out why a grandfather of a girl who was raped is on death row and was apparently railroaded to that decision. She ma......more

This was an exceptionally well done thriller. It is 2002 and a man is on death row in Florida for the admitted murder of a Senator’s son who had raped his granddaughter. He is scheduled for execution in the near future and a young African-American female reporter is assigned the story. Deborah Jones......more

Fun read. Don't know an journalist who can do this, but it was still fun to read.......more

Miami Herald reporter, Deborah Jones is a rookie, new to journalism yet brimming with single minded determination to pursue the truth and provide it to the newspapers readership. Her first ‘real’ assignment, one more of her own violation than an order from her superiors, sees her traverse to a corre......more

I plowed through "Miami Requiem" and its sequel "Dark Waters" so fast during the early days of the pandemic, I forgot about reviewing them. Like a lot of people, I had time on my hands and not much else. I spent maybe a day on each. Author J.B. Turner is a pro. His words are never wasted, and his st......more