Homicide Special

A Year in the Life of the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit

By: Miles Corwin

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

A riveting, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most elite, highly trained units of homicide detectives in the country

Los Angeles is a town of dreamers--and of those who prey on them. The scene of innumerable bizarre crimes, it is also home to a unique police unit called Homicide Special, whose mandate is to take on the toughest, most controversial, and highest-profile cases. Now acclaimed writer Miles Corwin uses his unprecedented access to this legendary unit to portray six of its 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 unwittingly into white slavery. When a gangster's daughter, brought up in Las Vegas, takes a bullet, veterans Jerry Stephens and Paul Coulter trace clues scattered across the country to one of Manhattan's wealthiest real estate magnates. A cold case is reopened; a suspicious mother-daughter drowning and a baffling rape/murder case are solved. And finally, Corwin re-creates the investigation surrounding the late Bonny Lee Bakley--a woman driven, like her city, by the desire for fame--who was allegedly murdered by her actor-husband, Robert Blake.

Compulsively readable, artfully written, and surprisingly redemptive, Homicide Special offers a thrilling insider's report on some of the nation's most high-profile and complex homicides--and the extraordinary men who solve them.

©2004 Miles Corwin; (P)2004 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC

Real LAPD detectives and how they work a case

Narration was very good. Behind the scenes look at murder investigation. The infamous Robt. Blake wife murder case and 4 other cases

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND

Being a criminal investiagtor, and understanding the techniques of the trade this book correlates with the way we handle criminals in California. If a reader wants to read a true crime book this is it.

a day in RHD

i did not like the jumping from case to case...nor the abrupt ending. no clear story line about one or two of the detectives

Wow! Great audio book!

Enjoyed the content, as well as the presentation. Very interesting subject, and the narration was superb.

Great narration, good story!

Homicide Special was a good listen. The information was great and certainly kept my interest. There was a lot of switching gears back and forth from case to case throughout the story, which made it difficult to follow at times (especially while multitasking when listening). The descriptions throughout the book were vivid. A good listen for true crime fanatics!