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“Could easily be included on lists of the best true-crime books of the past twenty years…Johnny Heller’s well-executed narration enhances the listening experience. Verdict: Highly recommended.”
— Library Journal (starred audio review)
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“Heller’s convincing narration—reminiscent of narrators of radio crime dramas—intensifies this gripping true-crime account, a glimpse into the world of today’s homicide units. His powerful, no-nonsense reading underlines the seriousness of the cases and the care the officers take in pursuing justice…This excellent quality recording provides a glimpse into the world of today’s homicide units.”
— Booklist (starred audio review)
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“Is painstaking in tracing how the detectives go about their fieldwork. The cat-and-mouse games they play with suspects in the interrogation room are fascinating.”
— Washington Post
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“It’s like David Simon’s The Wire―urgent but cold-eyed and tragic—and it’s all true.”
— Men’s Fitness magazine
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“Wilber…gets high marks for placing readers smack inside the world of his characters—in the stuffy, fluorescent-lit homicide offices, the bloody murder scenes, and the claustrophobic interview rooms.”
— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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“Vividly depicts the tension, pressure, and occasional tedium involved in crime solving, portraying the work as both vital and unending.”
— National Book Review
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“A rare snapshot of homicide investigation in action…A fascinating report written in a relentless, real-life noir tone.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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"Superb--one of the best real-life cop books ever written.
— Lee Child
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With this engrossing and compelling account of the reality of crime and policing, Del Quentin Wilber affirms his place as one of the nation's most accomplished writers of first-rate narrative nonfiction. Put away your mysteries and thrillers--this is the real thing, rendered with grit and with grace.
— Jon Meacham, author of American Lion and Destiny and Power
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"A Good Month for Murder is utterly absorbing. Wilber's clear-eyed, discerning book does justice to both the homicide detectives he shadowed and the victims they speak for. Highly recommended.
— Sgt. Adam Plantinga, Edgar-nominated author of 400 Things Cops Know
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"Del Quentin Wilber's A Good Month for Murder presents a great few hours of reading for anyone interested in peeling back the screen of myth and romance to get at the harsh and visceral reality of homicide investigation.
— Stephen Hunter, author of The Third Bullet and Sniper's Honor
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"A meticulously reported account of an intrepid reporter’s embedded months with a homicide squad. Unfiltered and raw, A Good Month for Murder reads like a cross between Michael Connelly’s fiction and David Simon's classic, Homicide.
— Neal Thompson, author of A Curious Man and Driving with the Devil
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This is the real cop story--not a TV show, not fiction, not a political diatribe. A Good Month for Murder is a deeply reported, compelling, timely account of what it's like to be a homicide detective working in the shadows of the nation's capital.
— David Maraniss, author of Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story