Ghettoside by Jill Leovy

 Started: 11/28/21

Finished: 12/3/2021

Year: 2015

Pages: 308

Genre: True Crime

Grade: C

Reason for reading: Librarything giveaway

Type: ARC

Blurb (from back cover): "On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man is shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of hundreds of young men slain in L.A. every year. His assailant runs down the street, jumps into an SUV, and vanishes, hoping to join the vast majority of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes.

"But as soon as the case is assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shift.

"Here is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential American murder-one young black man slaying another-and a driven crew of detectives whose creed is to pursue justice for forgotten victims at all costs. Ghettoside is a fast-paced narrative of a devastating crime, an intimate portrait of detective and a community bonded in tragedy, and a surprising new lens into the great subject of why murder happens in America-and how the plague of killings might yet be stopped."

Opinion: This isn't written like most other true crime novels. The beginning was a lot more chaotic with statistics instead of being focused on the one killing that this book ends up being focused on. Beside the beginning, this was a decent look at how one killing was resolved in L.A.