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Ladataan... Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective UnitTekijä: Miles Corwin
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I started "Homicide Special" yesterday afternoon, and literally could not do anything else until I finished it several hours later. I hated for it to end. A reader gets an honest feel for the rhythm of detective work, and realizes how months of work can be undone by a careless mistake (even one made decades ago in a long dormant case) or by a clerk who inadvertently destroys old evidence. The author is scrupulously fair to the police and gives a realistic snapshot of contemporary Los Angeles with its international mix of cultures. Several of these bizarre cases prove the old saw that truth IS stranger than fiction. Corwin is one of the best at putting you at the scene without calling attention to himself. I'd recommend this to anyone interested in police work -- or good journalism. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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The premise here is that a journalist embeds with LAPD's elite homicide detective unit (only the complex, hard, or notorious cases, and those involving celebrities), Homicide Special, and watch the detectives do their work. Corwin weaves in the backstories of the detectives, the LAPD, the evolution of Homicide Special, Los Angeles, the suspects, and the victims. So while you're stuck in one arbitrary year, there is a lot of context skillfully weaved throughout.
The book reads almost like a novel spinning through multiple iterations of the first half of a Law & Order episode, but of course it's all the real deal. As such, it is a fascinating look at big city homicide work that "fortunately" for Corwin included the opening stages of the Robert Blake murder investigation as well as the bizarre saga of Robert Durst.
If you like that sort of thing--I do--then this will be a must read. ( )