Crime beat
Crime beatMichael Connelly

Crime beat (2006)

Michael Connelly

Creators: Mixed

Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. 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.

ISBN:
9780316012799
Length:
384 pages

Genres: nonfiction

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I found it really repetitious when they were kind of a series of articles about one crime because you know if you're a newspaper reader every time that they bring up the article bring up the crime they have to recap the crime and they have to recap what's happened up to that point so it was very repetitive. so crime beat by Michael Connelly is frankly only for a Connelly completionist like me

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