Crime Beat: Stories of Cops and Killers - Michael Connelly

Open up any of the non broadsheets and you are probably reading a newspaper in name alone. After a token page on politics and some articles on bleak crime like murder you will find yourself reading pages about celebrities. News no longer sells it seems as people would rather go online and get it for free, or watch the 24 hours news channels that keep up to date. Opinion pieces, scare mongering and celebrity tittle tattle are how papers sell today. They try to one-up one another with who's sleeping with whom, what drugs have been taken and who stole Jacko's nose? Even those newspapers that claim to be above it all seem packed to the gills with opinions. Back in the ...  Read the complete review