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Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit

Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit

Corwin, Miles

Paperback

CriminologyGeneral LawGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $28.99

ISBN10: 0805076948
ISBN13: 9780805076943
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: Sep 1 2004
Pages: 389
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

With an Updated Epilogue by the Author

A compelling portrait of seasoned homicide cops at work. This is L.A.'s darkest side: ironic, heart-breaking, stunningly violent, unfailingly human. Riveting.
-Jonathan Kellerman

The 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.

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