Death is my beat.'
Those words, spoken by the narrator and hero of The Poet, could also apply to Michael Connelly. He was an award- winning journalist before he became one of the leading crime writers of his generation, the creator of the detective Harry Bosch.
Crime Beat is a riveting collection of true stories which reveals, time and again, the connection between Connelly the crime reporter and Connelly the novelist:
One morning an editor called me and told me to swing by a murder scene on my way to the office. Just like that, like was picking up a coffee on the way to work... I went as instructed and got the story. I also got the place where I would put the home of the fictional detective l had secretly begun writing about...
The cops. The killers. The cases. A must for all Connelly fans.