Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
12 Books Similar to Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Computer Hackers, Germany Hannover
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a… Continue Reading Posted in: Drug Addicts, Narcotic Addicts, Narcotics Dealers
The Executioner’s Song
Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize. In what is arguably his greatest book, America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product… Continue Reading Posted in: American Writers, Biographical Fiction, Crime And Criminals, Literary Fiction, Western U.S. Biographies
Clockers
Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" (USA Today) At once an intense mystery and a revealing study… Continue Reading Posted in: Brothers, English Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, United States
Awakenings
This is an extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic, which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive 'awakening' effect… Continue Reading Posted in: Arbovirus [Mesh], Drug Therapy, Encephalitis, Mental Disorders
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Or the Murder at Road Hill House
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Biography, Detectives In Literature
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of hundreds of young men… Continue Reading Posted in: Criminal Law, Social Sciences, Sociology, Sociology of Urban Areas, Urban
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a humanizing account of the true-life search for a serial killer still at large on Long Island and presents the first detailed look at… Continue Reading Posted in: Crime, Mystery, Nonfiction
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo – and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
Lucie Blackman - tall, blond, twenty-one years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Etc.), Litigation, Murder Victims' Families, Trials
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