Homicide Special ─ A Year With the Lapd's Elite Detective Unit

The mandate for L.A.'s unique police unit, Homicide Special, is to take on the toughest, most controversial, and newsworthy cases. In this insider's account, acclaimed writer Miles Corwin uses unprecedented access to narrate six of the unit's cases - and capture its newest generation at work.
When a call girl from Kiev dies in the line of duty, detectives Chuck Knolls and Brian McCartin seek her killer among a circle of Russian women who have been sold unwittingly into prostitution. When a gangster's daughter takes a bullet, veterans Jerry Stephens and Paul Coulter trace clues scattered across the country to a Manhattan real estate magnate. A cold case is reopened; a mother-daughter drowning and a baffling rape-murder are solved. And, finally, Corwin re-created the investigation surrounding the late Bonny Lee Bakley, allegedly murdered by her actor-husband, Robert Blake.
With an epilogue updating each of these cases, Homicide Special offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most high-profile units of homicide detectives in the country.