THE HOMICIDE REPORT

In the vein of GANGLEADER FOR A DAY, RANDOM FAMILY and ALL THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS.

Award-winning LA Times journalist Jill Leovy has spent nearly a decade covering homicide and this book - based in part on her groundbreaking “Homicide Report” project, reporting all 845 LA County murders in one year - will weave together a kaleidoscopic narrative about a murder-wracked community in South Los Angeles with a bracing new theory about race and homicide. “Readers will come to understand the dynamics of homicide from the vantage of real victims, perpetrators, witnesses, police officers, paramedics, surgeons, journalists, and young me just trying to stay alive.” THE HOMICIDE REPORT is not an academic book, nor is it a political screed, it is an intensely reported journalistic take that will force readers to see race and murder through new eyes.