Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers

Abridged
Author: Michael Connelly
Narrator: Len Cariou , Nancy McKeon , Carl Franklin
Genres: True-Crime
Publisher: Time Warner Audio Books
Date: October 2007
Length: 5 hours
Ratings:
  • Book Rating: 2.5/5
Formats:
  • CD

Overview

From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels.

Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles.

In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath.

Connelly's firsthand observations would lend inspiration to his novels, from The Black Echo, which was drawn from a real-life bank heist, to Trunk Music, based on an unsolved case of a man found in the trunk of his Rolls Royce. And the vital details of his best-known characters, both heroes and villains, would be drawn from the cops and killers he reported on: from loner detective Harry Bosch to the manipulative serial killer the Poet.

Stranger than fiction and every bit as gripping, these pieces show once again that Michael Connelly is not only a master of his craft, but also one of the great American writers in any form.

Reviews (2)

Crime Beat

Written by Anonymous on January 13th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 2/5

Did not hold my attention, sounds like a series of newspaper articles being read to you.

Crime Beat

Written by Pamela Christensen from Long Beach, CA on May 3rd, 2007

  • Book Rating: 5/5

So interesting to hear the background of one of my very favorite writers. It was a great CD and I think Michael Connelly is a wonderful writer and narrator. Loved it!

Author Details

Author Details

Connelly, Michael

"Connelly has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Nero, Barry, Ridley, Maltese Falcon (Japan), .38 Caliber (France), Grand Prix (France), and Premio Bancarella (Italy) awards.

In addition to his work in publishing, Michael Connelly was one of the creators, writers, and consulting producers of Level 9, a TV show about a task force fighting cyber crime that ran on UPN in the Fall of 2000.

Connelly is currently writing his next book which will be released in 2004. It will be another in the Harry Bosch series.

He lives with his family in Florida. "