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Originally Posted by ATDrake
I purchased this one at Kobo during a recent Open Road Media promotion on true crime titles for $1.99 each (now back to full price, but sometimes they repeat their sale titles and of course it's couponable if you manage to score a really good code in one of the contests):
The Blooding, the story of the discovery of DNA identification in England and its use in solving the Narborough village murders, by Joseph Wambaugh ( Wikipedia), who writes it in the style of one of his police procedural novels. |
I read that back in the day when it was first released in paperback in 1989. It's a really excellent book about the use of DNA and widespread blood sampling to catch a serial killer. DNA use in forensics was still experimental at the time. Thanks for the reminder; I should put it on my reread list.
I'm a big Wambaugh fan. Wambaugh was an ex-cop (LAPD detective in the 60's and early 70's) who has written some excellent books about policing in primarily southern California. He also wrote several other non-fiction books about well-known crimes, "The Onion Field" about the execution-style killing of two LAPD patrolmen in 1963, and "Echoes in the Darkness", about an unsolved murder and kidnapping in mainline Philadelphia in 1979.