The hero is Detective Inspector Jack Caffery, a rising star in the Met's crack murder squad.
For his book "S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C.," he revisited the block where he bought drugs and spoke with a pastor who was protected by a local drug dealer named Baldy.
His new book about those years, S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in DC, recalls David Simon's beloved HBO show The Wire with its vivid, textured portrait of urban life and territorial gang warfare.
"It's in the cracks that murders happen," Dunne told me.
In CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder, Ubisoft's crime-solving game, Visa's fraud-protection service alerts players to a stolen credit card that helps gamers crack a murder case.
Laing plays a rookie cop tasked with cracking the murder of Strictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli, who, in Successville, is a chef married to chief suspect Darcy Bussell.
He's found a cracking good murder case — a true-crime story that's driven by several fascinating characters and that's also engaging and suspenseful, a whodunit in which the reader is genuinely interested in the solution.
The Old Testament is like an episode of The Sopranos written by someone on crack, with prophets murdering children for calling them "baldhead" and nations destroyed with locusts.
The first episode sees Sleet and his celebrity sidekick trying to crack is the murder of Bruno Tonioli, the Strictly judge now a local restaurateur.
Laticha Hodges, 21, was raised by her grandmother in the Bronx since she was 5, when her mother, a former prostitute and crack addict, was murdered in Yonkers in 1990.
