I had to add a new category to this - recycle. It does not really seem right to bring it to the charity shop..mostly, because it is very outdated (I seem to have an older edition than the ones pictured on Goodreads..)it' s actually subtitled ' a history of forensic detection, so not quite the book pictured.

At first it seemed like the book was a good review of old cases, and interesting ones that took place overseas, and how they were resolved. But the more the author lets his opinion intrude, the more the book loses, and more unpalatable I found the whole thing. I kind of felt dirty after reading it. I realise the subject matter does not lend itself to hearts and flowers, but there is a certain bullishness about the author that is unappealing, referencing his own texts, seeing things in black and white. What I thought was most unsettling is his assertion that sex crimes are somehow a modern phenomena, basically because people today have more leisure time (?!). Also, that somehow only modern humans are capable of applying logic to problem solving. ( )