Book of the Week: Miles Corwin's "Homicide Special"

I'd never heard of this book, which was first published in 2003, so when a friend recommended it I picked it up right away. Journalist Miles Corwin spent a year with the LAPD's Robbery-Homicide Division, riding with the detectives, sitting in the squad room and observing their investigations. Homicide Special is the fascinating result of that work, a non-fiction study that reads like a Michael Connelly novel. Corwin is a sharp observer and a fine writer. For anyone interested in learning what a homicide investigation is really like, this is indispensable.

Comments

[Doug Riddle]

There is a prequel to this book by Corwin...."The Killing Season: A Summer Inside An LAPD Homocide Division."

Both are great books.

[Frogg]

How does this compare to the brilliant David Simon's "Homicide"?

[David J. Montgomery]

I've never read David Simon's Homicide. But Homicide Special is excellent.