Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers by Michael Connelly

By Michael Connelly

Earlier than Michael Connelly grew to become a novelist, he was once a criminal offense reporter, masking the detectives who labored the murder beat. In those bright, hard-hitting items, Connelly leads the reader earlier the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the sufferers, their households and friends--and of, direction, the killers--to inform the true tales of homicide and its aftermath.

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