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Edited by Jeffrey Toobin, CNN’s senior legal analyst and *New York Times* bestselling author of *The Nine* , *The Best American Crime Reporting 2009* is a must-have for the true crime reader, complete with the most gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant stories of the year by the masters of crime reporting. Featuring stories of fraud, murder, theft, and madness, the Best American Crime Reporting series has been hailed as “arresting reading” ( *People* ) and the best mix of “the political, the macabre, and the downright brilliant” ( *Entertainment Weekly* ). The color of blood / Calvin Trillin — Breaking the bank / L. Jon Wertheim — Body snatchers / Dan P. Lee — Everyone will remember me as some sort of monster / Mark Boal — The fabulous fraudulent life of Jocelyn and Ed / Sabrina Rubin Erdely — True crime / David Grann — The day Kennedy died / Michael J. Mooney — The Zankou chicken murders / Mark Arax — Mexico’s red days / Charles Bowden — Hate and death / R. Scott Moxley — Dead man’s float / Stephen Rodrick — Non-lehtal force / Alec Wilkinson — American murder mystery / Hanna Rosin — Stop, thief! / John Colapinto — Tribal wars / Matt McAllester

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