Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0316012793 ISBN13: 9780316012799 Release Date: June 2007 Publisher: Back Bay Books Length: 384 Pages Weight: 0.95 lbs. Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 8.2" 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.