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Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers (2006)
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, this non-fiction collection contains an Introduction by Michael Connelly and an Afterword by Michael Carlson.
Crime Beat, a non-fiction collection, was originally released in 2005 in a
limited edition by SCV Publications.
Read an excerpt and reviews. See some original newspaper clips and photos. Listen to a clip from the audiobook.
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