Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit

With an Updated Epilogue by the Author. A compelling portrait of seasoned homicide cops at work. This is L.A.s darkest side: ironic heart-breaking stunningly violent unfailingly human. Riveting.-Jonathan Kellerman. The mandate for Los Angeles unique police unit Homicide Special is to take on the toughest most controversial and highest-profile cases. In this literate unfailingly interesting work of true crime (Kirkus Reviews) acclaimed writer Miles Corwin uses unprecedented access to narrate six of the units 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 into white slavery. When a gangsters daughter takes a bullet veterans Jerry Stephens and Paul Coulter trace clues scattered across the country to a Manhattan real-estate magnate. A cold case is reopened; a mother-daughter drowning and a baffling rape/murder are solved. And finally Corwin re-creates the investigation surrounding the late Bonny Lee Blakley allegedly murdered by her actor-husband Robert Blake. . With a revised epilogue updating each of these fascinating cases Homicide Special offers a riveting behind-the-scenes look at one of the preeminent units of homicide detectives in the country.