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A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad 

byDel Quentin Wilber

Reporter Del Quentin Wilber embeds with a homicide squad in suburban Washington, D.C., during February 2013, a month crowded with twelve murders, police shootings, and the hunt for a brutal killer. Detectives move from chaotic crime scenes through interviews, autopsies, paperwork, family notifications, false leads, and exhausted judgment. The book reveals investigative work as patient collaboration rather than television certainty. Wilber gives equal weight to victims, families, suspects, and officers, showing how repeated exposure to violence shapes the people charged with explaining deaths and bringing cases into an imperfect legal system.

Publisher

Picador

Publication date

2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

288

ISBN

9781250135506