Crime Beat

A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers

De: Michael Connelly

Narrado por: Len Cariou, Nancy McKeon, Carl Franklyn

Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting pieces, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and of, course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath.©2004 Michael Connelly; (P)2006 Time Warner AudioBooks. All Rights Reserved.

Fascinating true crime snapshots in the Sin Cities

A very well written & performed menagerie of crime stories from the newspaper files of crime novelist Michael Connelly. He culls murder, burglary, fear, frustration, shock, and more from crimes he covered in his former life as a crime reporter in Florida then Los Angeles. Shows his writing talent was there from the start. Could be called Front Row To The Shit Show. Who killed the Queen fatter than her photos? Who killed the negotiator to the stars who ended up in his trunk? What kind of headcase commits 350 burglaries in 364 days? Great, understated narration brings the hard-boiled writing to life.

Wonderful

Michael Connelly is never less than wonderful. This true crime memoir is a fascinating look into crime reportage.

The entire work was insightful, interesting and well done.

I liked the narrators from the author Len Cariou et al. it was very well done.

Not the usual Michael Connelly book

This is not the Usual Michael Connelly Book. I did not enjoy it, but felt I needed to listen to it

Another winner

Well written and delivered with great readers. Interesting to see the threads of Harry Bosch!

Crime Beat

I’ve read (and listened to
) several of Michael Connelly’s books. I traveled back to his earlier writing to hear how he began. I e joyed this book.
Bravo!! Great job!👏🏾

Not what you might be expecting.

If you’re a big Connelly fan this production MIGHT be of interest to you. You’ll get an idea about how true life crime provided the seed for several of his novels.

If not, I suggest you leave this one on the shelf. Here we have 3 different narrators reading newspaper articles written by the author (?) in his past life as a crime reporter. Disorganized presentation is the schema here. And for many stories there is no finality as with his novels. “…still unsolved.”

Not up to Harry Bosch

True Crime is a different kind of writing than crime fiction. The author must hew to the facts as they happen. These true stories lack the sparkle than the reader usually associates with Michael Connelly and instead of giving a fascinating inside look at police work, drag on. The author's own voice narrating the first segment is not a good readers' voice.
Len Cariou is such a genius. he should have read the entire thing.

Repetitious

It was just reading from newspaper stories and each one just kept repeating. I found the first reader very tiresome and boring. The second and third readers put more into it and weren't so bad. I usually enjoy his books very much. (Maybe not the narration so much.)

Boring

There wasn’t a story to get engrossed in. I am used to getting involved with the story while I mow my grass.