The Best American Crime Reporting 2009

by Jeffrey Toobin (Editor), Otto Penzler (Editor), Thomas H. Cook (Editor)

Overview

“With consistently interesting content and beautiful writing, this collection will be devoured by fans of true crime and narrative nonfiction.” —Library Journal

Edited by Jeffrey Toobin, CNN’s senior legal analyst and New York Times–bestselling author of The Nine, The Best American Crime Reporting 2009 is a must-have for the true crime reader, complete with the most gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant stories of the year by the masters of crime reporting. Featuring stories of fraud, murder, theft, and madness, the Best American Crime Reporting series has been hailed as “arresting reading” (People) and the best mix of “the political, the macabre, and the downright brilliant” (Entertainment Weekly).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061959219
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	11/21/2023
Series:	Best American Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	338
Sales rank:	271,983
File size:	705 KB

About the Author

THOMAS H. COOK was born in Fort Payne, Alabama. He has been nominated for Edgar Awards seven times in five different categories. He received the Best Novel Edgar, the Barry for Best Novel, and has been nominated for numerous other awards.

Editorial Reviews

Series guest editor Toobin (staff writer, The New Yorker; The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court) here brings together his selection of the year's best articles on crime and criminals, the eighth annual compilation. As editor, he maintains the high quality for which the series is known. The subjects are diverse: lighthearted stories of cons and shoplifters are interspersed with horrific political killings, domestic disputes turned deadly, and the grisly story of the trade in human body parts. The murders covered in these pieces are both famous (Robert A Hawkins, the Nebraska Christmas gunman) and obscure (the senseless murder of Thien Minh Ly by Gunner Lindberg), recent (hedge-fund manager Seth Tobias) and historical (JFK). Fascinating as the criminals are, the best articles are about the crime stoppers. In "Mr. Non-Lethal Weapons," Sid Heal examines the difficulty of stopping a criminal without using deadly force. And "American Murder Mystery" documents the depressing failure of one of the most celebrated urban antipoverty programs. VERDICT With consistently interesting content and beautiful writing, this collection will be devoured by fans of true crime and narrative nonfiction. Highly recommended.—Deirdre Bray Root, Middletown P.L., OH

Library Journal