Homicide
by David Simon
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Mafia, Mystery & Crime, and Fiction.
From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show.The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight f...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Mafia, Mystery & Crime, and Fiction.
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John J. Stanton
“@grisuy @anthoknees The snot boogy story is also based on something that really happened as I recall. If you haven?t read @AoDespair?s book Homicide, you should. It?s amazing and has a lot of the source material from the Wire and Homicide the show. | @grisuy @anthoknees The snot boogy story is also based on something that really happened as I recall. If you haven’t read @AoDespair’s book Homicide, you should. It’s amazing and has a lot of the source material from the Wire and Homicide the show.”
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