The Best American Crime Writing 2006 (Best American Crime Reporting) / Mark Bowden, Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook

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 expos 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