What is it about? The authoritative guide to navigating crime scenes—for professionals and for anyone fascinated by the world of CSI.
Buy it here for $0.99
(2) Criminal Profiling from Crime Scene Analysis by Various
What is it about? This seminal publication in the history of FBI profiling as part of the information on serial killers. Topics addressed include: The history of criminal profiling, The profiling of murderers, The criminal-profile-generating process, Homicide type and style
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What is it about? Writers, especially fiction writers, are frequently unfamiliar with the forensic documents and have no time or desire to get familiar with many of them. In view of this, writers would most likely find concise, easily read, explanatory documents of assistance. Fortunately, you will not have to mount much of a search to find such a document. If you are reading this, you have it effectively in hand.
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What is it about? A look at the day-to-day life of someone whose profession is death. The author, a coroner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has had a hand in some famous cases. A detailed picture of what a coroner does and how the job affects his or her private life.
Buy it here for $12.99
What is it about? A Matter of Life and Death tells fascinating stories of mysterious illnesses and miraculous scientific breakthroughs. But it is also crammed full of extraordinary characters – from the forensic anthropologist with his own Body Farm in Tennessee to the doctor who had a heart-and-lung transplant and ended up using her own lungs for research.
Buy it here for $9.99
Ooh. I don't write mystery but I have several friends who do.
ReplyDeleteOff to send them to your blog.
Clarissa - Wow! Thank you! I really don't know enough about forensics, so some of these would be great choices :-).
ReplyDeleteWhat great resources!
ReplyDeletePS - Welcome back from your cruise. :)
Now if only I wrote mystery!
ReplyDeleteGreat resources, thanks for pointing them out.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend that buys books like that all the time. He spent over $200 on his kindle he got last year for christmas
ReplyDeleteVery cool post! I'm bookmarking this for when I get my Kindle Fire for Christmas.
ReplyDeleteSome good resources there.
ReplyDeleteSuitably gruesome books for Christmas! Yay!! Take care
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Great resources here - thanks!
ReplyDeleteThese are all interesting books, Clarissa. I'm not a mystery writer, but I do like to read anything that helps me on the writing journey.
ReplyDeleteThis is a mystery writer's festivus.
ReplyDeleteHow awesome!!!
$12.99 and $9.99 doesn't sound particularly cheap to me but maybe it is given that these are textbooks. Mystery is something that every writer should know. Even if you don't write in this genre, having a grasp of this kind of writing will make your own story more intriguing.
ReplyDeleteWow! These are great resources, Clarissa. I'm bookmarking this post for future reference. Thanks! And I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday season!!
ReplyDeleteAnn Best, Author of In the Mirror & Other Memoirs
These are definitely useful for the crime author. A 'must have' for the home library.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a lot of great resources for mystery writers.
ReplyDeletePerfect! More idea's to give to my wife for Christmas idea's!! :)
ReplyDeleteI'll order a couple of these >:)
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Hi, Clarissa. I just read your comment on my post. I forget to check in to Goodreads. So I went and found the reviews there. Thank you SO much for taking the time to do this! As always, your response is right on. Imprisoned is of course the stronger story. I too wish I knew more about Grace Duniven. But what I wrote is all I knew about her. It was totally true to my experience.
ReplyDeleteAs ever, Ann
Ann Best, Author of In the Mirror & Other Memoirs
Nice to know, what a great list. Thank you!
ReplyDelete"Forensic anthropologist with his own Body Farm in Tennessee"
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell?
I can see where those would be handy to people in fantasy too.
ReplyDeleteCool. I'm bookmarking to check this out.
ReplyDeleteThese are great resources--it is so important to have an edge of realism in crime fiction. Drives me crazy to watch medical dramas when they get the medicine stuff all wrong. No one else probably cares, but I'm yelling at the TV saying "NO WAY!"
ReplyDeleteWhat great resources! Thanks for sharing, Clarissa! :)
ReplyDeleteExcellent deals here! I'm also one of those non-mystery writers, but it's more that I don't know enough about it to write it properly. Perhaps these books would help me out there. ;)
ReplyDeleteoh, wow. You're making me want to write a murder mystery! :D No, I'll leave that one to the pros like you. Great pix, though~ <3
ReplyDeleteCould be a great Christmas gift! Interesting selection, I think I'll start with Coroner's Journal.
ReplyDeleteClaire @ Textbooks
I'm not a mystery writer but these still look intriguing. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI like these kinds of books. Many writers gravitate toward reading them over fiction. Besides the mechanics of what goes on, they can be a wealth of inspiration for your own imagination.
ReplyDeleteGreat list! Just what I am needed, so very timely. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI don't write mysteries, but I'm sure interested in the science of it all (thanks to you). I'll be checking these out. Thanks!
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