AdvertisementTaking On Crime In A Racially Divided D.C.August 02, 2011Elizabeth BlairfacebookEmailGeorge Pelecanos' 17 crime novels take place in and around Washington, D.C. Pelecanos has also written for HBO's The Wire and Treme, which take place in Baltimore and New Orleans, but he says his novels will always be set in D.C. (Mai-Trang Dang via Flickr)