Author ~ Michael Connelly
Title ~ Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers
ISBN ~ 9780316153775
Condition ~ Good
Scratches, some of them deep to the back cover. Remainder Mark on the paper block bottom edge. Please See pictures for details
Edition ~ First American Edition
Publisher ~ Little, Brown and Company
Published ~ May 2006
Language ~ English
Pages ~ 375
Format ~ Hardcover
Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends—and, of course, the killers—to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath.
Connelly’s first hand observations would lend inspiration to his novels. His first book, The Black Echo, was drawn from a real-life bank heist, while Trunk Music was based on an unsolved case of a man found in the trunk of his Rolls-Royce. And the vital details of Connelly’s best-known characters, both heroes and villains, would get their realism from the cops and killers he reported on: from loner detective Harry Bosch to the manipulative serial killer the Poet.
Crime Beat presents stories as fascinating as they are chilling, from the serial killer of young models who cuts a swath across the country to elude police, to the man who leads a bizarre double life on two coasts before his elaborate hoax breaks down. Here, too, we can see Connelly’s razor sharp eye for telling details: a worn-down earpiece on a cop’s eyeglasses, the revealing high school yearbook quotes of an alleged cold-blooded murderer, the checkered career of a bumbling gang of killers who publicly advertise their services.
Stranger than fiction and every bit as gripping, these pieces show once again that Michael Connelly is not only a master of ...
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