MARK BOWDEN; OTTO PENZLER; THOMAS H. COOK
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 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