The Best American Crime Writing 2006 (Best American Crime Writing)
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Book 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 expos 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
Customer Reviews
Rated 5 starsOne of the best of the crime writing series
The Best American Crime Writing 2006 rocks! I have enjoyed this series since the first one came out in 2002. If you enjoy short true crime pieces this series is for you. This is the best one in the series since the first volume came out. The stories range from tales of the mob to tales of high prices prostitution and murder. My favorites include: Skip Hollandsworth's "The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob," in which he discusses...
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Rated 4 starsNot as Good as Some Years
This year's edition of Otto Penzler's and Thomas H. Cook's BEST AMERICAN CRIME WRITING hasn't a whole lot to recommend it, and most of these stories are pretty blah. I don't know if good crime writing needs space to expand, and suffer with the enforced brevity of a newspaper article or magazine piece, but these tales seem like they were fished out of ancient copies of READERS DIGEST. Despite the jacket copy, the NEW YORKER...
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