• Restless Sleep

  • Inside New York City’s Cold Case Squad
  • By: Stacy Horn
  • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
  • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (60 ratings)

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Restless Sleep

By: Stacy Horn
Narrated by: Eliza Foss
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Publisher's summary

Journalist Stacy Horn is a contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered. In her enticing narrative The Restless Sleep, she sheds light on the dark world of the NYPD’s real-life Cold Case Squad—a special command of detectives who take on the homicide cases that remain unsolved after their initial period of investigation. Those in its ranks are often characterized as misfits and lone wolves—but brilliant ones, to be sure. Here, their fascinating and deeply troubling stories of cases closed—and others that remain open—are conveyed in chilling detail.

©2005 Stacy Horn (P)2006 Recorded Books, LLC

Critic reviews

"NPR contributor Horn's deft writing and unique access to detectives laboring to bring justice to the many forgotten victims of murder create a significant addition to the genre....The heroic and three-dimensional portrayals of the individual police officers are compelling, but many will find more novelty in Horn's detailed assessment of the bureaucratic turf battles surrounding the cold case squad, and the serious obstacles NYPD reformers continue to face. Several notches above the typical reporter's insights into the realities of criminal justice." ( Publishers Weekly)

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Haunting

This book was very interesting. I was very impressed after I finished listening to find out the author had stayed involved in helping people learn to keep their own police dept's working on their own families' cold cases. I even Google Street Viewed some of the scenes of the cases in the book...very sad and eerie to know these people lived and died and disappeared and were all but forgotten.
The cases outlined in the book are still with me! Restless sleep indeed!

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Got bored early on.

I listen to a lot of true crime and cold case books. This book appears to be all about the author and her points of view. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

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