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Author : Michael Connelly
Publisher : Little Brown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 0316135542
From Michael Connelly's first career as a prize-winning crime reporter comes this collection of the gripping, true stories that have inspired and informed his novels.
Author : Michael Connelly
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759515689
From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. In vivid, hard-hitting articles, 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. Connelly's firsthand observations would lend inspiration to his novels, from The Black Echo, which was drawn from a real-life bank heist, to Trunk Music, based on an unsolved case of a man found in the trunk of his Rolls Royce. And the vital details of his best-known characters, both heroes and villains, would be drawn from the cops and killers he reported on: from loner detective Harry Bosch to the manipulative serial killer the Poet. Stranger than fiction and every bit as gripping, these pieces show once again that Michael Connelly is not only a master of his craft, but also one of the great American writers in any form.
Author : Geri Dreiling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735030317
A girl is dead. A boy is locked up. Can Debbie Bradley discover the truth before more lives are lost?maybe even her own?A series of deadly shootings. An outbreak of stolen cars. When journalist Debbie Bradley returns home to St. Louis, the summer crime wave has started. And she's in the center: A witness, a reporter, a target. Debbie's reasons for leaving behind her promising career in Washington D.C. were complicated. Her mother, a prominent lawyer, was diagnosed with cancer. Her engagement was cooling. When she got offered a job in St. Louis that she hadn't been looking for, Debbie recognized an opportunity. Or an escape. But she didn't expect to come home and see a girl die. Debbie never planned to investigate a boy behind bars. And she didn't anticipate colliding with hostile cops and wary politicians.As her work gains attention, Debbie gathers enemies. Will her assignment to cover the St. Louis crime beat be her last?
Author : Scott Nicholson
Publisher : Haunted Computer Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452409818
Crime doesn't pay...but neither does journalism. CRIME BEAT A novella by Scott Nicholson When John Moretz takes a reporter job in the Appalachian town of Sycamore Shade, a crime spree erupts that boosts circulation and unsettles the people. Then a body is discovered, and Moretz happens to be one of the first on the scene. As police discover more murder victims, Moretz comes under suspicion while his editor struggles between cashing in on sensational news and sidelining Moretz until the crime wave is over. When police suspect a serial killer is at work, the newspaper gains wide acclaim and more reporters come to cover the crimes. The editor falls in love with one of those reporters, who wants inside information on Moretz. But John Moretz stays one step ahead of the other reporters, the police, and seemingly even the killer himself. A novella of about 21,000 words, the equivalent of 100 book pages. keywords: murder mystery, crime ebook, James Patterson, suspense, Dean Koontz, Lawrence Block, Michael Connelly, thriller ebooks,
Author : Marty Weiss
Publisher : Aisle Seat Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1935655515
Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Get the Summary of Michael Connelly's Crime Beat in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Crime Beat" by Michael Connelly presents a gritty, realistic look into the world of crime and law enforcement in various cities, primarily focusing on the experiences of detectives and police officers as they navigate complex and often dangerous investigations. The narrative covers a wide range of cases, from homicides and organized crime to burglaries and cold cases. It delves into the personal stories of both the victims and the perpetrators, as well as the dedicated law enforcement personnel who work tirelessly to solve crimes and bring justice to those affected...
Author : Jake Adelstein
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307378941
NOW A MAX ORIGINAL SERIES. A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist who "pulls the curtain back on ... [an] element of Japanese society that few Westerners ever see" (San Francisco Examiner). Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption, and of course, the yakuza. But when his final scoop exposed a scandal that reverberated all the way from the neon soaked streets of Tokyo to the polished Halls of the FBI and resulted in a death threat for him and his family, Adelstein decided to step down. Then, he fought back. In Tokyo Vice he delivers an unprecedented look at Japanese culture and searing memoir about his rise from cub reporter to seasoned journalist with a price on his head.
Author : Sabine Binder
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004437449
In this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes against women in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of crime novels written over the last decade, Binder emphasises the genre’s feminist potential and critically maps its political work at the intersection of gender and race. Her study challenges the perception of crime fiction as a trivial genre and shows how, in South Africa at least, it provides a vibrant platform for social, cultural and ethical debates, exposing violence, misogyny and racism and shedding light on the problematics of law and justice for women faced with crime.
Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789099935
A disgraced LA music star faces execution for a crime he didn't commit in the long-lost crime novel of Robert Silverberg, SFF Writers of America Grand Master, available for the first time in over 60 years. HAD L.A.’S HOTTEST BANDLEADER BECOME AN INSTRUMENT OF DEATH? Before his extraordinary career as a grandmaster of science fiction, Robert Silverberg honed his craft as a writer for a variety of pulp magazines, including crime digests with titles like Trapped and Guilty Detective Story Magazine. He also wrote this long-lost novel, which appeared under the pen name “Stan Vincent” in 1960 – and has never been published since. Meet Bob McKay: once a rising star in the toniest nightclubs of Los Angeles, now a down-and-out denizen of tawdry bars where B-girls hustle drinks and brawls break out nightly. When one hustler winds up strangled, McKay lands on Death Row. Can a starlet and a sympathetic newspaper columnist clear his name before his date with the death chamber? Featuring a new introduction by the author and three bonus stories from Guilty and Trapped, THE HOT BEAT offers readers a trip through time back to the pulp era, when a future star was making his bones with stories of murder, betrayal, and dangerous desires…
Author : Sarah E.H. Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137400543
From video games that allow us to participate in Mafia-style violence, to newspaper reports about the latest terrorist atrocity, from detective novels that fill our bedside cabinets, to Hollywood's beloved legal dramas – the mass media is saturated with stories about crime, justice and disorder. Together they create a cultural landscape of crime that is distinctly at odds with reality, as criminologists are apt to complain. Crime and the Media attempts to make sense of this cultural landscape and its relationship with broader social trends and public attitudes. Through focussed, critical discussions about crime in the media - taking on crime news and fictional representations of cops, courts, and corrections - the text equips students with an understanding of the key theoretical concepts and methodological tools that are required to undertake media analysis. With questions for discussion, exercises and workshop sessions, as well as techniques for analysing crime in a range of media formats, the book makes an invaluable contribution to crime and media courses, and to the social sciences in general.
Author : Jason Reynolds,Brendan Kiely
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781481463355
A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature. In this New York Times bestselling novel, two teens—one black, one white—grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension. A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad’s pleadings that he’s stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad’s resistance to leave the bodega as resisting arrest, mistakes Rashad’s every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the concrete pavement? There were witnesses: Quinn Collins—a varsity basketball player and Rashad’s classmate who has been raised by Paul since his own father died in Afghanistan—and a video camera. Soon the beating is all over the news and Paul is getting threatened with accusations of prejudice and racial brutality. Quinn refuses to believe that the man who has basically been his savior could possibly be guilty. But then Rashad is absent. And absent again. And again. And the basketball team—half of whom are Rashad’s best friends—start to take sides. As does the school. And the town. Simmering tensions threaten to explode as Rashad and Quinn are forced to face decisions and consequences they had never considered before. Written in tandem by two award-winning authors, this four-starred reviewed tour de force shares the alternating perspectives of Rashad and Quinn as the complications from that single violent moment, the type taken directly from today’s headlines, unfold and reverberate to highlight an unwelcome truth.
Author : Fred Bayles
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781608710010
In the latest installment of the Field Guide series, Fred Bayles takes you step-by-step through the process of identifying and covering the events and issues that matter most to your community. For the five local beats—cops, courts, emergencies, schools, and government—you'll learn where to go for information and how to organize and present the stories your neighbors want and need. An overview of tools and techniques include tips on how to find sources, conduct interviews, work with editors, tap the power of the crowd and think multimedia. Then, for each beat, you'll get specifics on: People: The best official and unofficial sources of info, and what to ask them. Places: Where to go on the beat, and what to look for while you're there. Documents: Where to find records in offices and online, how to decipher and use them. Stories: Overview of common story types and how to go beyond them. Resources: Glossary of key terms, checklists, helpful web links.
Author : Jenn Burleson Mackay
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780786455058
In this book, scholars examine the many prevailing arguments about media bias from a non-polemical perspective. Essays cover individual forms of bias, including ideology, politics, television, photography, religion, abortion, homosexuality, gender, race, crime, environment, region, military, corporate ownership, labor and health. Each essay introduces the topic, presents arguments for and against the specific bias, assesses the evidence for all arguments, and includes a list of suggested readings. Two additional essays discuss the broader aspects of the bias debate and give a personal perspective on reporting the controversial Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Joshua Page
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199985074
In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has exploded, 'law and order' interest groups have also grown -- in numbers and political clout. In The Toughest Beat, Joshua Page argues in crisp, vivid prose that the Golden State's prison boom fueled the rise of one of the most politically potent and feared interest groups in the nation: the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA). As it made great strides for its members, the prison officers' union also fundamentally altered the composition and orientation of the penal field. The Toughest Beat is essential reading for anyone concerned with contemporary crime and punishment, interest group politics, and public sector labor unions.
Author : George Michael Killenberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136033216
Everyday life, no whether the issues or events arise next-door or a continent away, raises questions and concerns that the public counts on journalists to answer and, more important, confront. More than ever before, we all rely on the news media for warnings, explanations and insights. The profession - and society - cannot afford lazy, inept, uncommitted journalists. Today's reporters must learn how to cover public affairs intelligently and thoroughly. First you must learn about the institutions and people who influence the news; understanding how a legislative conference committee functions or how a trial is conducted remain important pre-requisites. But it is not enough merely to know how to report. Journalists must also understand how they see, define and influence the news. Don't be fooled by the daily dose of fluffy stories about fads, fashions or fetishes. People love to revel in celebrity gossip or fantasize about extreme makeovers. But Donald Trump's love life or the South Beach Diet don't satisfy when people worry about a home invasion in their neighborhood or a rezoning proposal to bring a Wal-Mart super center to town or a Department of Education report that their child's school scored bottom-most in reading achievement. Public Affairs Reporting Now is intended to teach you the best practices and give you the best advice for covering what's generically known as "public affairs reporting. It's a term that's neither inspiring nor precise, but it's long been a convenient way of describing the kind of news coverage that keeps people informed as citizens and keeps our institutions, public and private, focused on the public good.