Reviews

The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 by Thomas H. Cook, Otto Penzler, Stephen J. Dubner

lawyergobblesbooks's review

5.0

Absurdly good as usual. Two skipped articles: the one about dogfighting (I used to have a pit bull) and the one at the end (stream-of-consciousness gibberish). Other than that, fantastic.

On short-form true crime: http://www.whatbookshouldireadtoday.com/2011/02/why-cant-i-eat-true-crime.html

portable_magic78's review

3.0

3.25 STARS

celli's review

4.0

I think of these "Best American Reporting" books as the text equivalent of a really long This American Life episode. Mostly I was left wanting more, especially on the more recent cases. My favorite, predictably, was about two of the more famous Ponzi schemers before Madoff, and what that suggests about Madoff's so-far murky beginnings and motives. My least favorite was the last one, about a Mexican crime family member, which was just too arty for my taste.