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Helpful Score: 3
Not as good a read as his novels, but an interesting insight into crime reporting.
Helpful Score: 2
I am a huge fan of Michael Connelly's fictional novels. This was an interesting incite into the author behind Harry Bosch's character. That being said, I found it difficult to read. Not because the articles weren't interesting, but because there were many articles, each telling a different story. I found myself putting this book down and reading other books, and returning to this one afterwards.
As I said, Mr. Connelly is a wonderful writer, I love his work and am looking forward to his next fictional novel.
As I said, Mr. Connelly is a wonderful writer, I love his work and am looking forward to his next fictional novel.
Helpful Score: 1
unfortunately, this is an unedited reprint of Connelly's newspaper columns about crime stories.
Boring, dull, no cohesiveness.
Boring, dull, no cohesiveness.
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Helpful Score: 1
My expectations for this book exceeded it's delivery. Michael Connelly has created a believable,very human character in Harry Bosch, and I was expecting to read about the real Michael Connelly. However this book is a collection of newspaper stories that Mr. connelly apparently wrote during his career as a newspaper reporter.
Lynette M. (JakeTheDog) reviewed Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers on + 34 more book reviews
I read it. It was OK.
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Well written in simple easy to understand. No niceties here, plain sometimes crude and dirty language, but it comes with the police and the teritory. Easy to read
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I didn't really care for this book. I guess I was expecting something more since I have read all Connelly's others.
Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, heard-hitting pieces, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigations, the victims, their families and friends - and, of course, the killers - to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath.
This is a non-fiction collection of newspaper stories written by a grade-A novelist when he was journalist for a variety of big city newspapers. These true crime stories are organized in a creative manner - from the viewpoint of the cops, from the viewpoint of the victims, from the viewpoint of the perpetrators. All display fine writing, with an ability to bring out a variety of sides to the event being reported.
Good book
Gloria M. (glo) - , reviewed Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers on + 149 more book reviews
I really enjoyed this book!
Awesome book....