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Leovy, Jill, author.

Ghettoside : a true story of murder in America / Jill Leovy.

Spiegel & Grau trade paperback edition.

New York : Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, 2015

©2015

x, 366 pages ; 21 cm

On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of hundreds of young men slain in Los Angeles every year. His assailant ran down the street, jumped into an SUV, and vanished, hoping to join the vast majority of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes. But as soon as the case was assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shifted. Here is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential American murder -- one young black man slaying another -- and a determined crew of detectives whose creed was to pursue justice at all costs for its forgotten victims. Ghettoside is a fast-paced narrative of a devastating crime, an intimate portrait of detectives and a community bonded in tragedy, and a new lens into the great subject of murder in America -- why it happens and how the plague of killings might yet be stopped.

"From the acclaimed Los Angeles Times reporter Jill Leovy, Ghettoside is the devastatingly powerful story of the quintessential American murder and a brilliant and driven cadre of homicide detectives whose creed is to pursue justice for forgotten victims at all costs. Ghettoside is a kaleidoscopic, fast-paced narrative of crime and investigation, and intimate portrait of detectives and a community bonded in tragedy, and a surprising new lens onto why murder happens in our cities--and how the epidemic of killings might yet be stopped."--Back cover.

Originally published in hardcover in 2015 by Spiegel & Grau.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-356) and index.

New York Times 100 Notable Books list, 2015

California Commonwealth Literature Club Gold Medal, 2015

Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2016

Audie Award Nonfiction Category Winner, 2016

The Ridenhour Book Prize, 2016

National Book Critics Circle General Nonfiction Category Finalist, 2015

PEN Center USA Award for Research Nonfiction, 2016

Some Davenport copies shelved in Book Club section.

Tennelle, Bryant.

Murder -- California -- Los Angeles.

Homicide -- California -- Los Angeles.

Homicide.

Murder.

California -- Los Angeles.

True crime stories.

True crime stories.

The plague -- A circle of grief -- A killing -- Ghettoside -- School of catastrophe -- Clearance -- The circumstantial case -- Good people and knuckleheads -- Witnesses and the shadow system -- The notification -- The case of Bryant Tennelle -- Son of the city -- "It's my son" -- The killing of Dovon Harris -- Nothing worse -- The assignment -- Everybody know -- The witness -- Baby man -- Mutual combat -- Witness welfare -- Lost souls -- The victims' side -- The opening -- "We have to pray for peace" -- The missing --

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