"Three cops, a call girl, a mysterious millionaire, a tabloid journalist, and the chief of detectives fuel a labyrinthine plot rife with mystery, ambition, romance and humor"--container.

Officer Dave Brown, a Vietnam veteran and a Rampart Precinct cop with two ex-wives and two daughters, blurs the lines between right and wrong to assert his own idea of justice to the streets of Los Angeles, but when he gets caught on video, Brown is forced to face the consequences of his past sins.

Memoir of the author who took to writing crime novels as a means to cope with his mother's murder and discusses the detective who headed the case and his strategy for finding the killer's identity.

A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law--and three cops in the middle.

The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by Stephen J. Dubner (the coauthor of Freakanomics ) about a high-society silver thief, and an extraordinarily memorable ode to bar fights" written by Jonathan...