Terrell's review
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
by David Simon
Terrell's review
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
Terrell's review
rating:
Simon was meticulous while exploring the lives, criminals, and nuances associated with homicide detectives. Simon's eye for the particulars were evident when the reader was sent through the thought process of Detective Donald Steinhice, who was not convinced that the woman hanging from her bedroom ceiling had indeed committed suicide. This was because the woman's bedroom slippers, which were on the floor beneath her feet, did not correspond to the foot from which they had presumably been worn-hence the left slipper was below the right foot. Steinhice could not reconcile himself with that fact. But he was able to resolve the discrepancy once he imagined the woman crossing her legs so as to wrap the toe of one slipper around the heel of the other, praying the slipper off from the back' (81). This process would have left the slippers on opposite sides. If this and other like accounts were absent, the reader would have been excluded from the detective's frame of mind-and Simon's as well. T...more
