Crime Beat

A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers

by Michael Connelly

Before he was a best-selling crime novelist, the prolific James Connelly was hitting the pavement alongside homicide squads in Los Angeles and South Florida. He covered more than a few murder scenes as a journalist, and close to two dozen of his sharply written newspaper articles are gathered here in CRIME BEAT. Connelly's nonfiction still reads with the suspenseful "whodunit" feel of his novels, and contains the same dry voice coupled with vivid detail that gives all of his writing a personal, but no-nonsense feel. This is a must-have for any true crime reader, while fans of Connelly's fiction are sure to find it equally engrossing.

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Publisher Notes

From #1 best seller Michael Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter, the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels.

Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked 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.

Stranger than fiction and every bit as gripping, these pieces show once again that Michael Connelly is not only a master of his craft, but also one of the great American writers in any form.

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