Good Month for Murder

A true-crime masterpiece which crosses James Ellroy with The Wire `A stunner! The best non-fiction detective book I’ve ever read’ Peter James 12 murders 3 police-involved shootings The hunt for a brutal killer The inside story of how a team of detectives carry out their almost impossible job `Wilber spent one cold February in 2013 tailing a group of hardened but dedicated detectives, bent on justice but beset by impossible odds. It’s like David Simon’s The Wire – urgent but cold-eyed and tragic, and it’s all true’ Men’s Fitness 'Superb - one of the best real-life copy books ever written.' Lee ChildIn a true crime cross between James Ellroy and David Simon's The Wire, A Good Month for Murder follows twelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer in Washington D.C. After gaining unparalleled access to the homicide unit in Prince George's County, which borders the nation's capital, bestselling author 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 shooting and stabbing after another. Meanwhile, the entire unit is obsessed with a stone-cold 'red ball', a high-profile case involving a seventeen-year-old honour student attacked by a gunman who kicked down the door to her house and shot her in her bed. This is the inside story of how a team of detectives carry out their almost impossible job.Murder is the police investigator's ultimate crucible: to solve a killing, a detective must speak for the dead. A Good Month for Murder is a compelling true crime account which shows what it takes to succeed when the stakes couldn't possibly be higher.

Pages: 290, Edition: Main Market, Paperback, Macmillan