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Download # Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers PDF by * Michael Connelly eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers The introduction was great but M&M it was all down hill from there. I bought this book thinking that Connelly was writing about crimes he had covered. That sounded interesting. Instead it appears to be just a reprint of old columns he wrote about various crimes. For each crime, there's a series of stand-alone articles and as a result there's lots of repetition of information from one to the next. I got bored and gave up on it after about 60 pages. It could have been very good if only Connelly ha
| Title | : | Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.26 (722 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316012793 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-29 |
| Language | : | English |
In these vivid, hard-hitting pieces, 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.. Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat
The introduction was great but M&M it was all down hill from there. I bought this book thinking that Connelly was writing about crimes he had covered. That sounded interesting. Instead it appears to be just a reprint of old columns he wrote about various crimes. For each crime, there's a series of stand-alone articles and as a result there's lots of repetition of information from one to the next. I got bored and gave up on it after about 60 pages. It could have been very good if only Connelly had taken the info from each crime and reworked it into one story for each incident.. Some of the stories were interesting and informative but many Norman F. Ast Some of the stories were interesting and informative but many were not and some seemed disjointed. Also there was little continuity to the book and it appeared as if the stories were just thrown together without much thought.. Enjoyable! My husband, a big Michael Connelly fan, really enjoyed this book!
Connelly's firsthand observations would lend inspiration to his novels, from The Black Echo, which was drawn from a real-life bank heist, to Trunk Music, based on an unsolved case of a man found in the trunk of his Rolls Royce. ExclusiveBefore he became a bestselling novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. Stranger than fiction and every bit as gripping, these pieces show once again that Michael Connelly is not only a master of his craft, but also one of the great American writers in any form. And the vital details of his best-known characters, both heroes and villains, would be drawn from the cops and killers he reported on: from loner detect
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