HOMICIDE: A YEAR ON THE KILLING STREETS. Just finished this book, by David Simon. It’s the book the TV show is based on. (Haven’t seen show, though.) Book came highly recommended by a bunch of people, including at least one with a law-enforcement background; and I’ll recommend it too, for what that’s worth. It’s basically one year with Baltimore’s homicide detectives, at the early edge of the late ’80s – early ’90s killing spree. Overwritten, but style isn’t exactly the point; book rings true. It’s excellent, empathetic reporting.