Homicide Special
A Year with the Lapd's Elite Detective Unit
2004
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Abridged edition
Renaissance Audio (Verlag)
978-1-55927-892-8 (ISBN)
Renaissance Audio (Verlag)
978-1-55927-892-8 (ISBN)
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With unprecedented access to one of the most elite, highly trained units of homicide detectives in the country, Corwin portrays six of the squad's cases, offering a thrilling insider's report on some of the nation's most high-profile and complex homicides. Abridged.
A riveting, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most elite, highly trained units of homicide detectives in the country
Los Angeles is a town of dreamers--and of those who prey on them. The scene of innumerable bizarre crimes, it is also home to a unique police unit called Homicide Special, whose mandate is to take on the toughest, most controversial, and highest-profile cases. Now acclaimed writer Miles Corwin uses his unprecedented access to this legendary unit to portray six of its cases--and capture its newest generation at work.
When a call girl from Kiev dies in the line of duty, detectives Chuck Knolls and Brian McCartin seek her killer among a circle of Russian women who have been sold unwittingly into white slavery. When a gangster's daughter, brought up in Las Vegas, takes a bullet, veterans Jerry Stephens and Paul Coulter trace clues scattered across the country to one of Manhattan's wealthiest real estate magnates. A cold case is reopened; a suspicious mother-daughter drowning and a baffling rape/murder case are solved. And finally, Corwin re-creates the investigation surrounding the late Bonny Lee Bakley--a woman driven, like her city, by the desire for fame--who was allegedly murdered by her actor-husband, Robert Blake.
Compulsively readable, artfully written, and surprisingly redemptive, "Homicide Special" offers a thrilling insider's report on some of the nation's most high-profile and complex homicides--and the extraordinary men who solve them.
A riveting, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most elite, highly trained units of homicide detectives in the country
Los Angeles is a town of dreamers--and of those who prey on them. The scene of innumerable bizarre crimes, it is also home to a unique police unit called Homicide Special, whose mandate is to take on the toughest, most controversial, and highest-profile cases. Now acclaimed writer Miles Corwin uses his unprecedented access to this legendary unit to portray six of its cases--and capture its newest generation at work.
When a call girl from Kiev dies in the line of duty, detectives Chuck Knolls and Brian McCartin seek her killer among a circle of Russian women who have been sold unwittingly into white slavery. When a gangster's daughter, brought up in Las Vegas, takes a bullet, veterans Jerry Stephens and Paul Coulter trace clues scattered across the country to one of Manhattan's wealthiest real estate magnates. A cold case is reopened; a suspicious mother-daughter drowning and a baffling rape/murder case are solved. And finally, Corwin re-creates the investigation surrounding the late Bonny Lee Bakley--a woman driven, like her city, by the desire for fame--who was allegedly murdered by her actor-husband, Robert Blake.
Compulsively readable, artfully written, and surprisingly redemptive, "Homicide Special" offers a thrilling insider's report on some of the nation's most high-profile and complex homicides--and the extraordinary men who solve them.
Miles Corwin a former staff reporter at the" Los Angeles Times," is the author of "The Killing Season "and "And Still We Rise." He lives in Los Angeles.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.1.2004 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | analog. |
| Verlagsort | Los Angeles |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-55927-892-7 / 1559278927 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-55927-892-8 / 9781559278928 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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