A Summer in South-Central with LAPD Homicide

The Killing Season

Does for the gangland killing streets of LA what David Simon's Homicide did for Baltimore

Gripping drama and pathos... Rarely has the genre been worked to better effect... He could scarcely have invented a better cast

A fascinating, gripping and at times heart-wrenching story

Miles Corwin is an award-winning former crime reporter for the LA Times. His books The Killing Season and Homicide Special were bestsellers, while his book And Still We Rise was an LA Times Book of the Year and winner of the PEN West award for non-fiction. He lives outside Los Angeles.

Meet Pete Razanskas, 22-year veteran homicide cop and Marcella Winn, a rookie detective who grew up in the 'hood. They're an unlikely partnership whose job it is to attempt to close some of the hundreds of murder cases that happen every year in the gang-infested streets of South-Central LA. Crime reporter Miles Corwin gained unprecedented access to shadow them for the usual hot summer of endless homicide. We meet the cops, the victims and the murders (Crips and Bloods, drug dealers, psychopaths and even killer kids), witness their incredible daily lives and hear their stories in intimate detail. The Killing Season is a raw, shocking and riveting story of an extreme place not far from the ordinary world where war rages on the streets and life has little value.

Miles Corwin

Lives Less Ordinary

The Lives Less Ordinary series brings you the most exciting, adventurous and entertaining true-life writing that is out there, for men who are time-poor but want the best. Lives Less Ordinary drops you into extreme first-hand accounts of human experience, whether that's the adrenaline-pumping heights of professional sport, the brutality of the modern battlefield, the casual violence of the criminal world, the mind-blowing frontiers of science, or the excesses of rock 'n' roll, high finance and Hollywood. Lives Less Ordinary also brings you some of the finest comic voices around, on every subject from toilet etiquette to Paul Gascoigne. 
 
Detectives Pete Razanskas and Marcella Winn are the real-life McNulty and Bunk from The Wire. The first: a 22-year LAPD veteran. The second: a rookie from the hood. Jump in a car with them and find out just how you catch a South-Central gangland killer from a cold start through a trail of witnesses, victims and killers. The real thing is more shocking and enthralling than any TV recreation. 
 
This digital bite has been extracted from Miles Corwin's gripping book The Killing Season.

Miles Corwin

Books by Miles Corwin

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