num_pages: 416
description: With an Updated Epilogue by the Author"A compelling portrait of seasoned homicide cops at work. This is L.A.'s darkest ironic, heart-breaking, stunningly violent, unfailingly human. Riveting."-Jonathan KellermanThe mandate for Los Angeles' unique police unit Homicide Special is to take on the toughest, most controversial, and highest-profile cases. In this "literate, unfailingly interesting work of true crime" ( Kirkus Reviews ), acclaimed writer Miles Corwin uses unprecedented access to narrate six of the unit's 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 into white slavery. When a gangster's daughter takes a bullet, veterans Jerry Stephens and Paul Coulter trace clues scattered across the country to a Manhattan real-estate magnate. A cold case is reopened; a mother-daughter drowning and a baffling rape/murder are solved. And, finally, Corwin re-creates the investigation surrounding the late Bonny Lee Blakley, allegedly murdered by her actor-husband, Robert Blake.With a revised epilogue updating each of these fascinating cases, Homicide Special offers a riveting, behind-the-scenes look at one of the preeminent units of homicide detectives in the country.
language: English
title: Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit
titlecomplete: Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit
genres: Mystery, Sociology, Detective, Journalism, Memoir, Crime, Nonfiction, True Crime
ratings_count: 493
publisher: Holt Paperbacks