No Ending | Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit

Welcome to LA - Third World Cesspool full of Criminal illegal aliens | Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit | Miles Corwin

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	• Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit Miles Corwin Holt Paperbacks, 2004 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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Book: Homicide Special is Great

Bought this book used, not in too goood condition, but the story line was exceptional, and the book's condition did not affect that. Quick delivery and wonderful writing. so i"m very satisfied.

No Ending

Although the book was a very interesting read, most of the cases highlighted in it had not been solved by the time the book went to press, leaving me wondering what happened.

Welcome to LA - Third World Cesspool full of Criminal illegal aliens

What was interesting was that most of the murders were committed by immigrants or illegal aliens. The First Chapter was the Russian sex trade in LA. They were all illegal and the woman who was murdered was selling other women. When she made her pot of gold she was going back to Russia.
everyone comes here for money and they murder for it too.
Another man came here and imported Brides from his own country , while he was a crook. This is called Chain immigration of course.
I learned a lot about how easy it is for immigrants to come here.I would say that none of them made any attempt to intergrate into the dominant culture,they stayed in their own segregrated world( by choice) and murdered those close to them.
This is what diversity is and I recommend that people go to Numbersusa dot com and find out how to limit immigration

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The Best Book I Read in 2007

I live in L.A., and I originally bought this book as research material for an article I wanted to write. Expecting something either too dry or sensational, I wound up falling in love with Corwin's vivid, immersive writing style. It was a really pleasant surprise. He knows how to draw the reader into the world of homicide investigation, conveying the tedium of investigation without losing the excitement of the pursuit. He peels back layers of compelling detail on cases that were well-published by the press, revealing a flawed yet fascinating process of tracking down our most dangerous criminals. I felt like I was right there with him and the RH detectives he follows for the year. I couldn't get enough. And the way he portrays the detectives of RH who work tirelessly on these high-profile cases was truly endearing. (Maybe his portrayal was too sympathetic. Who knows?)

I had a few maddening moments reading about the case for Robert Blake's wife with the perspective we have now. With little effort -- the case spoke for itself -- Corwin conveyed a powerful message about the influence of the media on our collective prejudices, as well as how helpless investigators can be when dealing with uncooperative witnesses. The book finished on this case, leaving me with not just a profound understanding of the homicide investigation process, but how our city has handicapped some of its most valuable law enforcement personnel.

I wish Corwin would return to RHS and do this again. I'd not only buy that book, but I'd buy copies for my friends!

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Riveting

My husband picked this book up from a bargain table at Borders. I was skeptical, looking at the cover, but it's one of the best true crime books I've read. Throughout the accounts of each murder investigation, Miles Corwin peppers you with intriguing information about the detectives, the victims, the suspects, various LA neighborhoods and LA history. It's riveting, to say the least, and you don't want it to end.

With an Updated Epilogue by the Author

"A compelling portrait of seasoned homicide cops at work. This is L.A.'s darkest side: ironic, heart-breaking, stunningly violent, unfailingly human. Riveting."
-Jonathan Kellerman

The mandate for Los Angeles' unique police unit Homicide Special is to take on the toughest, most controversial, and highest-profile cases. In this "literate, unfailingly interesting work of true crime" (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed writer Miles Corwin uses unprecedented access to narrate six of the unit's 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 into white slavery. When a gangster's daughter takes a bullet, veterans Jerry Stephens and Paul Coulter trace clues scattered across the country to a Manhattan real-estate magnate. A cold case is reopened; a mother-daughter drowning and a baffling rape/murder are solved. And, finally, Corwin re-creates the investigation surrounding the late Bonny Lee Blakley, allegedly murdered by her actor-husband, Robert Blake.

With a revised epilogue updating each of these fascinating cases, Homicide Special offers a riveting, behind-the-scenes look at one of the preeminent units of homicide detectives in the country.

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