Forensics

Crime Lab Technician (Paperback) by John Townsend

This exciting book shows readers what its like to be a crime lab technician.

Crimebusting and Detection (Paperback) by Helene Boudreau

How does science help law enforcement professionals? Meet crime scene investigators and learn how they search for clues such as fibers and fingerprints. Discover how medical examiners use scientific techniques to uncover evidence. Learn about the...

Forensics: The Scene of the Crime (Paperback) by Lynn Peppas

Cold case files dont stay cold for very long anymore. After the medical and police teams have secured the area, the crime scene investigators arrive on the scene. This fascinating book follows the efforts of the different CSI personnel involved in...

STEAM Jobs in Forensics by Shiley Duke

Forensics is the focus of this STEAM driven title that introduces students to all the jobs within this criminally related field.

Unsolved Crimes (Paperback) by Katie Dicker

The fascination with true crime, cold cases, and unsolved crimes are a perfect environment for discovering STEM skills

The Devil in the City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

 The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the other a murderer. "The Devil in the White City" draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life...

Zodiac by Robert Graysmith

Horrifying in a way no fiction can be, Zodiac is the gripping story of the serial murderer who terrorized the San Francisco bay area from 1966 to 1978. The book contains reproductions of the killer's communiques to the police as well as the author's own...

Poisoners Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum

The untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. A pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981.Was it murder or self-defense?For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and...

Getting Away With Murder hc by Chris Crowe

The 1955 kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi is famous as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. In clear, vivid detail Crowe investigates the before-and-aftermath of the crime, as well as the dramatic court trial, and...

And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney

In 1913, 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. The factory manager, a college-educated Jew named Leo Frank, was arrested, tried, and convicted in a trial that seized national...

For the Sins of My Father: A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mob Life by Albert Demeo

 A suspenseful, emotionally charged real-life "Sopranos": The son of New York's most notorious Mafia killer reveals the conflicted life he led being raised by a cold-blooded murderer who was also a devoted family man, and the wrenching legacy of Mafia...