Strictly Murder! Provides crime writers with essential information on all aspects of murder and its investigation and prosecution, including

• murder motives
• murder methods
• murder types
• criminal profiles
• police investigative tools and procedures
• medical examiner and crime lab tools and procedures
• criminal court procedures
• definitions of commonly used police terminology
… and much more.

Unique to this book is the inclusion of an actual Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department “murder book”—a law enforcement agency’s complete paper trail that follows a murder from the time it is first reported through the arrest of a suspect. A “murder book” collects every report made by every person connected with a murder investigation, including the first officer on the scene, forensic investigators, and detectives.

Strictly Murder! Also includes short chapters written by investigative, criminal-profiling, and crime-lab professionals.