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FBI Handbook of Crime Scene Forensics

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This "book" is a government publication that is free to download from the FBI's web site in PDF version. Save your money, download it from the FBI.

According to another customer, this book is available for free (pdf version). I wish I had paid attention to this before, but anyway... a book is always a book. And this is a very interesting one. Not great, just good.

If you're a fiction writer and have crime scenes in your novel, get this book! In this book, you will find out details of crime scene investigation available nowhere else, and you can trust the FBI to tell it like it really is. This book is the actual procedural law enforcement agencies use to submit evidence to the FBI. If you want to know how impressions of footprints are taken in snow; that money from bank robberies can be tested not only for dye but tear gas residue; what evidence should be collected in paper versus plastic; how to set up a camera to photograph a crime scene; and the collection of tissue, bones, and teeth, those are just a few examples of the information this book is packed with. Even though my novel is a serial killer story with a humorous slant (a woman is murdering her online enemies for their Barbie doll collections), the plethora of details in this handbook will lend your writing authenticity and they will make your story come alive for the reader. Thank you, FBI, for publishing it. -- M.S. Bylenok (Bury Me With Barbie)

The link for the pdf file on the FBI.GOV website is...
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The title of this article is "Handbook of Forensic Services"
I'm not sure if it's the same as the book listed here though.

This FBI handbook offers a great look at the dynamics of crime scene investigation and proper techniques for forensic specialists. Also great material for crime writers, fans of crime dramas, and others interested in CSI and the FBI. -- from R. Barri Flowers, criminologist and bestselling author of The Sex Slave Murders: The True Story of Serial Killers Gerald & Charlene Gallego, Dark Streets of Whitechapel (A Jack The Ripper Mystery), Murders In The United States: Crimes, Killers And Victims Of The Twentieth Century, MURDER IN MAUI (A Leila Kahana Mystery)

Thanks to books like this and Amazon, I am now a Criminalist without being broke.