Awards

• Short-listed for CWA Non-Fiction Gold Dagger 2015
• Shortlisted for CWA Non-Fiction Gold Dagger 2015.

Overview

A phenomenally gripping account of a homicide investigation explodes the myths around policing and race. THE MULTI-AWARD WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 Why would you kill your neighbour? Based on the best part of a decade embedded with the homicide units of the LAPD, this groundbreaking work of reportage takes us onto the streets, inside the homes and into the lives of a community wracked by a homicide epidemic. Through the gripping story of one particular murder - of an eighteen-year-old boy named Bryant Tennelle, gunned down one evening in spring for no apparent reason - and of its investigation by a brilliant, ferociously driven detective - a blond, surfer-turned-cop named John Skaggs - it reveals the true origins of such violence, explodes the myths surrounding policing and race and shows that the only way to reverse the cycle of violence is with justice.

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Reviews

Riveting ... extraordinary ... For long passages, it enveloped and transported me more completely than any other work of nonfiction I have ever read -- Ed Caesar Sunday Times Lucid, revelatory, superbly written, incredibly timely. I was astonished by Jill Leovy's Ghettoside in which police and race in America are examined with forensic skill and furious, exceptional prose. Unmissable. -- Chris Cleave Exceptional. This book will take an honoured place on the shelf that includes David Simon's classic Homicide -- Martin Amis Fantastic. Not just a gritty, heart-wrenching, and telling book, but an important one. Everyone needs to read this book -- Michael Connelly The best crime journalism since Serial Esquire

Riveting ... extraordinary ... For long passages, it enveloped and transported me more completely than any other work of nonfiction I have ever read -- Ed Caesar * Sunday Times * Lucid, revelatory, superbly written, incredibly timely. I was astonished by Jill Leovy's Ghettoside in which police and race in America are examined with forensic skill and furious, exceptional prose. Unmissable. -- Chris Cleave Exceptional. This book will take an honoured place on the shelf that includes David Simon's classic Homicide -- Martin Amis Fantastic. Not just a gritty, heart-wrenching, and telling book, but an important one. Everyone needs to read this book -- Michael Connelly The best crime journalism since Serial * Esquire *

The best crime journalism since Serial * Esquire * Fantastic. Not just a gritty, heart-wrenching, and telling book, but an important one. Everyone needs to read this book -- Michael Connelly Exceptional. This book will take an honoured place on the shelf that includes David Simon's classic Homicide -- Martin Amis Lucid, revelatory, superbly written, incredibly timely. I was astonished by Jill Leovy's Ghettoside in which police and race in America are examined with forensic skill and furious, exceptional prose. Unmissable. -- Chris Cleave Riveting ... extraordinary ... For long passages, it enveloped and transported me more completely than any other work of nonfiction I have ever read -- Ed Caesar * Sunday Times *

Lucid, revelatory, superbly written, incredibly timely. I was astonished by Jill Leovy's Ghettoside in which police and race in America are examined with forensic skill and furious, exceptional prose. Unmissable. -- Chris Cleave Exceptional. This book will take an honoured place on the shelf that includes David Simon's classic Homicide -- Martin Amis Fantastic. Not just a gritty, heart-wrenching, and telling book, but an important one. Everyone needs to read this book -- Michael Connelly The best crime journalism since Serial Esquire Simply one of the finest books ever written about crime in LA - and crime in America, for that matter ... Tremendously touching ... astonishing ... achieves greatness through its ability to be both timely and timeless -- New Statesman

Author Information

Jill Leovy is an award-winning reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Ghettoside was a Finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award, winner of the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the California Book Award Nonfiction Gold Medal, the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Non-fiction, the PEN USA Research Non-fiction Award, the Carla Furstenburg Cohen Literary Prize in Nonfiction, and was a nominee for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.

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