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Scene of the Crime

Malcolm Rose

TV shows have familiarized us with crime scene investigations, but ever wonder what really happens in a true crime scene investigation?  In this interactive book, you get to solve the crime while learning about DNA evidence, suspect interviews, trace evidence and lots of other forensic methods.  The front cover holds the diary of one of the suspects, while the back cover holds the detective's crime file.  After the crime is discovered, each page illustrates a different stage of forensic investigation, and the evidence discovered at each stage.  You must use the newly discovered evidence to eliminate suspects and look more closely at the remaining suspects!  (Answers are found in the detective's crime file.)  Can you piece the evidence together and solve the crime?

Recommended by Carolyn Stepnitz