Crime Beat
A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers

Sometimes, to appreciate what a book is, it is necessary to be aware of what it is not. Crime Beat is not a collection of true crime essays by a well-known and respected veteran novelist, winner of every prize in the crime writing field. Crime Beat is a heterogeneous collection of old newspaper piec......more

Ok read! Good storyline with some interesting plotlines but the writing could have been better (paperback!) huge Connelly fan!......more

This was interesting due to understanding the roots of Connelly's writing. Several of the stories covered here are the real events that played out in his novels & the characters contributed a lot, too. That said, it's true crime or newspaper reporting, often done in parts with summaries that duplica......more

Let me start by admitting that I am a huge Michael Connelly fan and love almost everything he writes. This book however was a collection of his newspaper reporting from the '80s and at times was very interesting giving a good insight into his work but generally there was not enough to keep me fully e......more

Crime Beat is a collection of newspaper reports that Connelly wrote about the stories he covered over the course of his successful journalistic career. There are twenty two cases, all of them consisting a series of articles. All of them are about three decades old and very few of them are interestin......more