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Best American Crime Writing 2006

by Mark Bowden, Thomas H. Cook, Otto Penzler
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Overview

A sterling collection of the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers fascinating vicarious journeys into a world of felons and their felonious acts. This thrilling compendium includes:

  • Jeffrey Toobin's eye-opening exposé in The New Yorker about a famous prosecutor who may have put the wrong man on death row
  • Skip Hollandsworth's amazing but true tale of an old cowboy bank robber who turned out to be a "classic good-hearted Texas woman"
  • Jimmy Breslin's stellar piece about the end of the Mob as we know it

Synopsis

A sterling collection of the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers fascinating vicarious journeys into a world of felons and their felonious acts. This thrilling compendium includes:

  • Jeffrey Toobin's eye-opening exposé in The New Yorker about a famous prosecutor who may have put the wrong man on death row

  • Skip Hollandsworth's amazing but true tale of an old cowboy bank robber who turned out to be a "classic good-hearted Texas woman"

  • Jimmy Breslin's stellar piece about the end of the Mob as we know it

Entertainment Weekly

“Mixes the political, the macabre, and the downright brilliant.”

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Editorials

People Magazine

"Arresting reading."

Joyce Carol Oates

"Excellent! I don’t think I have ever encountered such variety in any anthology, of styles, subject matter, points of view."

People

“Arresting reading.”

Entertainment Weekly

"Mixes the political, the macabre, and the downright brilliant."

Entertainment Weekly

“Mixes the political, the macabre, and the downright brilliant.”

Bloomberg News

“Great choices [and] great writing … proves truth is indeed stranger than fiction.”

Book Details

Published
September 1, 2006
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pages
352
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780060815523

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