Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)

from jorgearanda

A fascinatingly gritty and realistic description of the dynamics of a homicide department. I wish Simon was more explicit as to his own presence and interventions in the events he describes; I also wish he'd trimmed about one or two hundred pages out of the book. But still, brilliant journalistic...

from Zumbanista

I don't have anything new to add to the many reviews written about Homicide since it was first written in 1998. So I'll just list my thoughts here This true crime non fiction book reads like a novel, with the same powerfully moving paragraphs. It is a police procedural outlining every nuanced inc...

from phredfrancis

This is a first-hand look inside the day-to-day events of a police homicide unit in Baltimore. These days, most people who come to it (as I did) were made aware of it by the television show Homicide: Life on the Streets. Many of the characters and incidents from the show, particularly from the ea...

from CarlGreatbatch

A journalist spends a year with Baltimore homicide detectives and ends up writing quite simply one of the best books I've ever read. Up there with HST's Hell's Angels or Mailer's The Fight in demonstrating that at it's peak journalism becomes art. This recent re-issue is particularly good because...

from jphillips3334

One of the best true crime books I've read ever. A journalist gets "embedded" with the homicide unit of the Baltimore Police Department for the whole year of 1988. He's given uncensored access to the inner workings of the "murder police." It's an honest look, "warts and all" of the detectives who...