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The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths are Solving America's Coldest Cases by Deborah Halber

3.17 AVERAGE

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2.0
It was a chore to finish this book. Interesting topic, but the book is poorly organized and poorly written. There is obviously lots of information and stories about Internet sleuths solving cold cases, so I have no clue why Halber had to include irrelevant asides (like spending a whole page talking about zombies, or the page long story about a 4 year old being "trapped" in her bed because there was a fly in her room), or other superfluous details. Every page is liberally sprinkled with sentences like "'Did you hear that?' Bobby asked Debbie, four gold hoops rimming the edge of her right ear." It drove me crazy. The book is only 261 pages long, and the author didn't have enough material to reach that page count without including ridiculous details that have nothing to do with the topic? She also gives a physical description of every single person she mentions in the book, describes what every person is wearing every time s/he is mentioned, and describes every single neighborhood and house/room she encounters.