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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Quickly going through the list of books I've read since 2005, I'm finding a bunch that I remember as being excellent. Here are 11 titles I just pulled off.
The first five are closest to what people may think of when they think of a true crime book:
Jeff Guinn, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
Jeff Guinn, Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
Michael Capuzzo, The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
Deborah Blum The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Bryan Burrough, Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
The next two are about the least bad kind of crime -- non-violent:
Betty L. Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Frank Partnoy, The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
These last four may not be what you think of as true-crime books but are too good to exclude, besides being highly relevant if you are a serious forensics student:
Philip Houston et. al., Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception
Tom Wells and Richard Leo, The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four
Alice Goffman, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
David Kennedy, Don’t Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
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So what did you think of the Murder Room? The subject sounds interesting, but the reviews on Amazon are pretty mixed.