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Author Leovy, Jill.

Title Ghettoside : a true story of murder in America / Jill Leovy.

Publication Info. [Westminster, MD] : Books on Tape, [2015]
℗2015

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  CD 364.1523 LEO    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  CDBOOK 364.1523 LEOVY    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  CDBK 364.1523 LEOVY    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  CD364.1523 LE    Check Shelf
Edition Unabridged.
Description 11 audio discs (approximately 13 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Read by Rebecca Lowman.
Compact discs.
Summary "A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America" -- provided by publisher.
"On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man is shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of the thousands of black Americans murdered that year. His assailant runs down the street, jumps into an SUV, and vanishes, hoping to join the scores of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes. But as soon as the case is assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shift. Here is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential, but mostly ignored, American murder--a "ghettoside" killing, one young black man slaying another--and a brilliant and driven cadre of detectives whose creed is to pursue justice for forgotten victims at all costs. Ghettoside is a fast-paced narrative of a devastating crime, an intimate portrait of detectives and a community bonded in tragedy, and a surprising new lens into the great subject of why murder happens in our cities--and how the epidemic of killings might yet be stopped" -- provided by publisher.
Note GMD: sound recording.
Subject Murder -- United States.
Homicide -- United States.
Murder -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Audiobooks.
Added Author Lowman, Rebecca.
ISBN 9780449009734
0449009734
9780449009710 Books in Tape
0449009718 Books on Tape
Music No. RHA3713 Random House Audio
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