The Best American Crime Writing 2006 (Best American Crime Writing)

Fifteen riveting true crime stories from some of the best crime writers around.A sterling collection of the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers fascinating vicarious journeys into a world of felons and their felonious acts. This thrilling compendium includes:Jeffrey Toobin's eye-opening exposé in The New Yorker about a famous prosecutor who may have put the wrong man on death rowSkip Hollandsworth's amazing but true tale of an old cowboy bank robber who turned out to be a “classic good-hearted Texas woman”Jimmy Breslin's stellar piece about the end of the Mob as we know it

A sterling collection of the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers fascinating vicarious journeys into a world of felons and their felonious acts. This thrilling compendium includes:

• Jeffrey Toobin's eye-opening exposé in The New Yorker about a famous prosecutor who may have put the wrong man on death row

• Skip Hollandsworth's amazing but true tale of an old cowboy bank robber who turned out to be a "classic good-hearted Texas woman"

• Jimmy Breslin's stellar piece about the end of the Mob as we know it

Entertainment Weekly

“Mixes the political, the macabre, and the downright brilliant.”

A sterling collection of the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers fascinating vicarious journeys into a world of felons and their felonious acts. This thrilling compendium includes:Jeffrey Toobin's eye-opening expose in The New Yorker about a famous prosecutor who may have put the wrong man on death rowSkip Hollandsworth's amazing but true tale of an old cowboy bank robber who turned out to be a "classic good-hearted Texas woman"Jimmy Breslin's stellar piece about the end of the Mob as we know it A collection of the best crime journalism of the past year includes outstanding contributions by Stephen Dubner, John Krakauer, and William Langewiesche, among others, this year featuring as guest edition the author of Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo. Original. 25,000 first printing.