A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (653 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250135508 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Twenty-Eight Days and Nights of February 2013 prisrob Twenty- eight days and nights of February 2013, in Prince George's County, Maryland, following the Homicide Unit, is a month of sleep deprivation, misery and some success. The author, Del Quentin Wilber, has worked as a crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun a. "A Long Month For The Homicide Squad In Suburban Maryland" according to Frederick S. Goethel. The author got permission from, and stayed with the homicide squad of Prince George's County, Maryland, a mixed county adjacent to Washington, D.C. for a number of months. Because of its proximity to DC, there are a number of poor neighborhoods in the county. Great read Gizmo If you are a fan of Homicide or the Wire or know the D.C. Metropolitan area you will like book.
Twelve homicides, three police-involved shootings, and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killerFebruary 2013 was a good month for murder in suburban Washington, D.C.After gaining unparalleled access to the homicide unit in Prince George's County, which borders the nation's capital, Del Quentin Wilber begins shadowing the talented, often quirky detectives who get the call when a body falls. More than any recent book, A Good Month for Murder shows what it takes to succeed when the stakes couldn't possibly be higher.. Meanwhile, the entire unit is obsessed with a stone-cold "red ball," a high-profile case involving a seventeen-year-old honor student attacked by a gunman who kicked down the door to her house and shot her in her bed.Murder is the police investigator's ultimate crucible: to solve a killing, a detective must speak for the dead. After a quiet couple of months, all hell breaks loose: suddenly every detective in the squad is scrambling to solve one shooting and sta
Wilber gets high marks for placing readers smack inside the world of his charactersin the stuffy, fluorescent-lit homicide offices, the bloody murder scenes, and the claustrophobic interview rooms as detectives cajole, intimidate, and banter with witnesses." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"Wilber is a former veteran Baltimore Sun and Washington Post reporter who spent one cold February in 2013 tailing this group of hardened but dedicated detectives, bent on justice but beset by impossible odds. It's like David Simon's The Wireurgent but cold-eyed and tragicand it's all true." Men's Fitness"With this engrossing and compelling account of the reality of crime and policing, Del Quentin Wilber affirms hi
An award-winning reporter who previously worked for The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post, he now covers the justice department for the Los Angeles Times. DEL QUENTIN WILBER is the New York Times bestselling author of Rawhide Down, an account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. . He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland