Crime beat
Subtitle: a decade of covering cops and killers
By: Michael Connelly.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780316153775
Subjects: Crime -- United States -- Case studies; Homicide investigation -- United States -- Case studies; Crime in mass media
Genres: Case studies.
Description: From Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Covering the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles in vivid, hard-hitting articles, 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. Connelly's firsthand observations would lend inspiration to his novels, from The Black Echo, which was drawn from a real-life bank heist, to Trunk Music, based on an unsolved case of a man found in the trunk of his Rolls Royce. And the vital details of his best-known characters, both heroes and villains, would be drawn from the cops and killers he reported on: from loner detective Harry Bosch to the manipulative serial killer the Poet.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.