A Good Month for Murder

By - Wilber, Del Quentin

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2016

ISBN 10 - 1250135508

ISBN 13 - 9781250135506

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Area

Shelf No - 19

Call Number - 363.2595 WIL

Physical Description - 273 pages ; 25 cm

Notes - Includes index

Book Information

Twelve homicides, three police-involved shootings, and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer—February 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 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 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.

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