Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers, (Paperback)

from BellaFoxx

Michael Connelly was a reporter before he was a novelist. This book is a collection of the articles he wrote, some for the Florida paper he worked for and some from Los Angeles. The first article he talks about how he became a reporter and what he learned that helped him when he started writing f...

from BellaFoxx

Michael Connelly was a reporter before he was a novelist. This book is a collection of the articles he wrote, some for the Florida paper he worked for and some from Los Angeles. The first article he talks about how he became a reporter and what he learned that helped him when he started writing f...

from jmcclain19

Collection of Connelly's pieces while working as a crime beat reporter. Interesting read for sure - but just don't expect any sort of new content or writing in this one. The entire book is simply reprinted articles already published in one of Connelly's newspaper gigs.

from SamSattler

"Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers" is one of those books that work much better in theory than it does in execution. It is based on what seems to be the rather clever idea of reprinting the newspaper articles Michael Connelly wrote as a young crime beat reporter in order to illust...

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Non-fiction account of how he became a crime novelist. Fascinating insights into a real life crime incident. Moves to his approach to crime fiction then tapers-off into newspaper accounts of real life crimes. The last area slows way down and repeats the facts and is not really satisfying to read ...