Homicide Special: On the streets with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit
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Written by Miles Corwin and Jonathan Davis.
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Los Angeles is a town of dreamers-and of those who prey on them. The scene of innumerable bizarre crimes, it is also home to a unique police unit called Homicide Special, whose mandate is to take on the toughest, most controversial, and high-profile cases. Now acclaimed writer Miles Corwin uses his unprecedented access to this legendary unit to portray six of its cases-and capture its newest generation at work. When a call girl from Kiev dies in the line of duty, detectives Chuck Knolls and Brian McCartin seek her killer among a circle of Russian women who have been sold unwittingly into white slavery. When a gangster's daughter, brought up in Las Vegas, takes a bullet, veterans Jerry Stephens and Paul Coulter trace clues scattered across the country to one of Manhattan's wealthiest real estate magnates. A cold case is reopened, a suspicious mother-daughter drowning, and a baffling rape/murder cases are solved. And finally, Corwin re-creates the investigation surrounding the late Bonny Lee Bakley, a woman driven-like her city-by the desire for fame and allegedly murdered by her actor-husband, Robert Blake. Compulsively readable, artfully written, and surprisingly redemptive, Homicide Special offers a thrilling insider's report on some of the nation's most high-profile and complex homicides-and the extraordinary men who solve them.User Reviews (0) Login or create an account to write a review.
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