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Twenty-seven years after the murders, on the eve of Rosenzweig's retirement as chief of investigations, he reopened the case, determined not to leave without catching the murderer of his friend. Philip Gourevitch, who last examined real-life murder in the award-winning We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, is more interested in the personalities of killers and those who pursue them than the drama of murder itself. As a result A Cold Case is short on tension, but is an excellent character study. Gourevitch immerses us in the "white hoodlum milieu of another time and from a city which no longer really exists," and he conjures up the particular moral universe of each character--Rosenzweig; murder victim Richie Glennon, an ex-prizefighter who walked the fence between the good guys and the bad guys; Murray Richman, the Mob-defending lawyer from the Bronx who likes murder cases because there's "one less witness to worry about"; and Koehler himself, now elderly but still unremorseful. Gourevitch's skillful handling raises intriguing contradictions and questions, not least this one Koehler asks about himself: "Why would people still think good of this asshole?" Now, that's a story. --Lesley Reed
Gripping, first rate . . . beyond the outright suspense here . . . is a meditation on the very essence of crime. "Janet Maslin, The New York Times"
This terse, eloquent book reminded me of many of the classic European novels, because the expected end is not the end at all. The mystery, it turns out, is not how these murders occurred or how the killer was caught but, rather, the nature of crime itself. "Scott Turow"
Part study of the criminal mind, part appraisal of the strange mechanics of justice, it is a trenchant, pithy, atmospheric book. "Times Literary Supplement"
The book's province lies somewhere between those of Cain and Camus . . . Matthew Arnold said a novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life . . . An inversion applies here: a piece of life by Philip Gourevitch is a work of art. "Jonathan Kiefer, San Francisco Chronicle"
Gourevitch is one of the finest journalists working today; his portrait of gangland in New York in the 1960s is brilliant. "Sebastian Junger"
Using a snappy, terse prose style that mimics a police procedural . . ." A Cold Case" is a lively, vastly readable book. "John Freeman, The Denver Post""
"Gripping, first rate . . . beyond the outright suspense here . . . is a meditation on the very essence of crime." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"This terse, eloquent book reminded me of many of the classic European novels, because the expected end is not the end at all. The mystery, it turns out, is not how these murders occurred or how the killer was caught but, rather, the nature of crime itself." --Scott Turow
"Part study of the criminal mind, part appraisal of the strange mechanics of justice, it is a trenchant, pithy, atmospheric book." --Times Literary Supplement
"The book's province lies somewhere between those of Cain and Camus . . . Matthew Arnold said a novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life . . . An inversion applies here: a piece of life by Philip Gourevitch is a work of art." --Jonathan Kiefer, San Francisco Chronicle
"Gourevitch is one of the finest journalists working today; his portrait of gangland in New York in the 1960s is brilliant." --Sebastian Junger
"Using a snappy, terse prose style that mimics a police procedural . . . A Cold Case is a lively, vastly readable book." --John Freeman, The Denver Post
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