Fifteen riveting true crime stories from some of the best crime writers around.A sterling collection of the year''s most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers fascinating vicarious journeys into a world of felons and their felonious acts. This thrilling compendium includes:- Jeffrey Toobin''s eye-opening exposé in The New Yorker about a famous prosecutor who may have put the wrong man on death row- Skip Hollandsworth''s amazing but true tale of an old cowboy bank robber who turned out to be a "classic good-hearted Texas woman"- Jimmy Breslin''s stellar piece about the end of the Mob as we know it
