A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad

"Twenty-Eight Days and Nights of February 201Twenty-Eight Days and Nights of February 2013 Twenty- eight days and nights of February 2013, in Prince George's County, Maryland, following the Homicide Unit, is a month of sleep deprivation, misery and some success. The author, Del Quentin Wilber, has worked as a crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post. He has always been interested in crime reporting and wa. " according to prisrob. Twenty- eight days and nights of February 201Twenty-Eight Days and Nights of February 2013 Twenty- eight days and nights of February 2013, in Prince George's County, Maryland, following the Homicide Unit, is a month of sleep deprivation, misery and some success. The author, Del Quentin Wilber, has worked as a crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post. He has always been interested in crime reporting and wa. , in Prince George's County, Maryland, following the Homicide Unit, is a month of sleep deprivation, misery and some success. The author, Del Quentin Wilber, has worked as a crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post. He has always been interested in crime reporting and wa. A Long Month For The Homicide Squad In Suburban Maryland The author got permission from, and stayed with the homicide squad of Prince George's County, Maryland, a mixed county adjacent to Washington, D.C. for a number of months. Because of its proximity to DC, there are a number of poor neighborhoods in the county, and as you move further from DC the neighborhoods get better. The book covers. Gizmo said Great read. If you are a fan of Homicide or the Wire or know the D.C. Metropolitan area you will like book.

Meanwhile, the entire unit is obsessed with a stone-cold "red ball," a high-profile case involving a seventeen-year-old honor student attacked by a gunman who kicked down the door to her house and shot her in her bed.Murder is the police investigator's ultimate crucible: to solve a killing, a detective must speak for the dead. More than any recent book, A Good Month for Murder shows what it takes to succeed when the stakes couldn't possibly be higher.. Twelve homicides, three police-involved shootings, and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killerFebruary 2013 was a good month for murder in suburban Washington, D.C.After gaining unparalleled access to the homicide unit in Prince George's County, which borders the nation's capital, Del Quentin Wilber begins shadowing the talented, often quirky detectives who get the call when a body falls. After a quiet couple of months, all hell breaks loose: suddenly every detective in the squad is scrambling to solve one sh

It's like David Simon's The Wireurgent but cold-eyed and tragicand it's all true." Men's Fitness"With this engrossing and compelling account of the reality of crime and policing, Del Quentin Wilber affirms his place as one of the nation's most accomplished writers of first-rate narrative nonfiction. Wilber, a former Washington Post reporter, is painstaking in tracing how the detectives go about their fieldwork. Wilber has a keen reporter's eye and ear for detail and a deft pen that sometimes skewers with funny yet unstinting prose the very detectives who granted him entrée to their wo

An award-winning reporter who previously worked for The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post, he now covers the justice department for the Los Angeles Times. . He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland. DEL QUENTIN WILBER is the New York Times bestselling author of Rawhide Down, an account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan