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HOMICIDE

By: David Simon
Narrated by: Reed Diamond
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Through wonderfully descriptive writing, Simon details the work of fifteen detectives, three sergeants and a lieutenant charged with investigating dozens of Baltimore's 234 murders that year. Simon takes listeners inside the detectives' lives, describing the frustration of departmental red tape and politics, the bursts of energy and moments of despair.



With an eye for the scenes of slaughter and pursuit and an ear for the cadences of cop talk, both business and banter, Simon gives this brilliant, harrowing account its authenticity and fascinating edge.



Simon plants us so close to these detectives that we see everything--the Police Department, the prosecutors, the courts, the city of Baltimore itself--from their angle. This is a never-before-seen look at what it's really like to investigate murders for a living.©1997 David Simon; (P)1997 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House, Inc.

Accolades & Awards

Anthony Award
1992
Anthony Award Freedom & Security Politics & Government True Crime Biographies & Memoirs Murder Crime Exciting
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Authentic Police Work • Fascinating Cases • Outstanding Narration • Compelling Storytelling • Realistic Portrayal

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I loved it. Listened thrice. Far too short. Want the full story please. Thank you

Why was this abridged??

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One of the best books available on audible. Definitely, have to buy this one. Nice work.

Incredible

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excellent. sorry it wasn't the full book. reads like a novel, but it's true crime.

only abridged version

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One of the best books ever written and Reed Diamond is the best narrator I ever heard.

One of my favorite books of all time.

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Much more realistic and less dramatized. It paints a bleak portrait of life as a detective. Short. Entertaining. Worth reading if you’re a fan of The Wire or true crime.

Not like the wire

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