false 18956 9 This 1992 Edgar Award winner for best fact crime is nothing short of a classic. David Simon, a police reporter for the <i>Baltimore Sun</i>, spent the year 1988 with three homicide squads, accompanying them through all the grim and grisly moments of their work--from first telephone call to final piece of paperwork. The picture that emerges through a masterful accumulation of details is that homicide detectives are a rare breed who seem to thrive on coffee, cigarettes, and persistence, through an endlessly exhausting parade of murder scenes. As the <i>Washington Post</i> writes, "We seem to have an insatiable appetite for police stories.... David Simon's entry is far and away the best, the most readable, the most reliable and relentless of them all.... An eye for the scenes of slaughter and pursuit and an ear for the cadences of cop talk, both business and banter, lend Simon's account the fascination that truth often has." 3187942 1991 Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets total:1046|5:583|4:353|3:95|2:13|1:2| 1046 4640 1840 224 5 6 false false Thu Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 10 10:49:38 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 12:05:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Sun Mar 01 13:09:27 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 13:18:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Oct 31 10:40:04 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 04 21:03:40 -0800 2007
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As a piece of journalism, it's incredible. There aren't many reporters who could get this kind of access to a bunch of miserable homicide cops (Simon seems to have spent every w...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 05:42:42 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 13:41:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Oct 06 19:18:12 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 21:37:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 18:51:04 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 16:54:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 22:51:13 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 22:15:09 -0800 2009 The Wire, has ended, but getting to read this book by one of its creators felt like getting to see another season. It may have the title of another crime series that Simon worked on, but it felt like The Wire to me -- and that is a real compliment!

Though it'...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 04:46:45 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 15 07:17:33 -0800 2009 Homicide, David Simon becomes arguably the first "embedded" reporter, but instead of Army tanks and Humvees, he rode along in the unmarked Chevy Cavaliers of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit. Simon--co-creator of HBO's epic serial drama The Wire--was a reporter for the Ba...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jun 17 10:24:14 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 10:24:50 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 10:14:26 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 20:28:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 22:41:06 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 22:41:47 -0800 2009 Homicide: A Year On the Killing Streets is a dense book, but then the topic -- a full year spent with the Baltimore Police Homicide Department -- is worthy of an in-depth treatment. Little is glamorized here and there are times when I was surprised that the Baltimore PD agreed to let David Simon res...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Fri Sep 18 00:56:55 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 23:22:34 -0700 2009
This book also spawned an excellent TV show, "Homicide: Life on the Street". Fans of the show will recognize a lot of the cases and characters that were used in the show.

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