The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold CA Ses - Softcover

Capuzzo, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592406351 ISBN 13: 9781592406357

Publisher: Avery Publishing Group, 2011

Synopsis

Thrilling, true crime tales from the Vidocq Society - a team of the world's finest forensic investigators whose monthly lunches lead to justice in ice-cold murders.

Three of the greatest detectives in the world were heartsick over the growing tide of unsolved murders. Good friends and sometime rivals William Fleisher, Frank Bender, and Richard Walter decided one day over lunch that something had to be done, and pledged themselves to a grand quest for justice.

The Murder Room draws the reader into a chilling, darkly humorous, awe-inspiring world as the three partners travel far from their Victorian dining room to hunt ruthless killers, among them the grisly murderer of a millionaire's son, a serial killer who carves off faces, and a child killer enjoying fifty years of freedom and dark fantasy.

Acclaimed bestselling author Michael Capuzzo brings true crime realistically and vividly to life in this account of a group of passionate men and women, inspired by their own wounded hearts to make a stand for truth, goodness, and justice in a world gone mad.

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Review:

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""The Murder Room" is a gripping page-turner, masterfully drawn and full of truth, dedication, and darkness."
-Michael Connelly, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Nine Dragons"
"At once terrifying and satisfying."
-"Philadelphia Inquirer"
"Novelists know to be wary of those slices of reality that are just too outlandish to be transformed into the stuff of fiction. In the superb and tantalizing "The Murder Room," Michael Capuzzo dares readers to believe the can-they-really-be-true stories of the heartbreaking cold cases that have been investigated by the forensic dream team that is the legendary Vidocq Society. The once forgotten crimes are horrendous, each bigger-than-life detective more outrageous than the next, and the circuitous paths they take to find long-delayed justice are impossible to forget."
-Stephen White, "New York Times" bestselling author
"Some of the most exciting detective work I've ever read."
-John Walsh, host of "

About the Author:

Born in Boston and educated at Northwestern University, Michael Capuzzo is the author of the acclaimed New York Times Bestseller Close to Shore, a historical thriller of the true story that inspired the novel and movie Jaws. Winner of many writing prizes as a staff reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Miami Herald, and for stories in magazines including Sports Illustrated, Esquire and Life, he lives in Pennsylvania, where he and his wife publish a prize-winning storytelling magazine, Mountain Home.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1592406351
• ISBN 13: 9781592406357
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480