
Death is my beat. Those words spoken by the narrator & 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 detectives Harry Bosch & Mickey Haller. CRIME BEAT is a riveting collection of true stories which reveals time & again the connection between Connelly the novelist & Connelly the crime reporter. Stories he covered whilst working the beat inspired his writing such as a bank heist in which the thieves got into the citys water tunnel system to get beneath the bank which informed THE BLACK ECHO. These are true stories of cops & killers & are every bit as gripping as a classic Connelly thriller.