{"product_id":"2940169080261","title":"Homicide Special: A Year in the Life of the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit (Abridged)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA riveting, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most elite, highly trained units of homicide detectives in the country\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLos Angeles is a town of dreamers--and of those who prey on them. The scene of innumerable bizarre crimes, it is also home to a unique police unit called Homicide Special, whose mandate is to take on the toughest, most controversial, and highest-profile cases. Now acclaimed writer Miles Corwin uses his unprecedented access to this legendary unit to portray six of its cases--and capture its newest generation at work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a call girl from Kiev dies in the line of duty, detectives Chuck Knolls and Brian McCartin seek her killer among a circle of Russian women who have been sold unwittingly into white  slavery. When a gangster's daughter, brought up in Las Vegas, takes a bullet, veterans Jerry Stephens and Paul Coulter trace clues scattered across the country to one of Manhattan's wealthiest real estate magnates. A cold case is reopened; a suspicious mother-daughter drowning and a baffling rape\/murder case are solved. And finally, Corwin re-creates the investigation surrounding the late Bonny Lee Bakley--a woman driven, like her city, by the desire for fame--who was allegedly murdered by her actor-husband, Robert Blake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompulsively readable, artfully written, and surprisingly redemptive, \u003ci\u003eHomicide Special\u003c\/i\u003e offers a thrilling insider's report on some of the nation's most high-profile and complex homicides--and the extraordinary men who solve them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116453249264,"sku":"2940169080261","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169080261_p0.jpg?v=1763671468","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169080261","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}