As the popularity of police television series such as Law & Order, CSI, and Cold Case makes plain, the public’s interest in police work is immense and growing. The Restless Sleep tells of a real-life subculture of crime solving and of the talented, indefatigable, ill-at-ease detectives who lock on to a case, sift through decades-old case files, and chase down seemingly exhausted leads—trying to see what others have missed. Following four cases from inception to resolution, Horn depicts the world of the victims and their murderers “who thought they’d gotten away with it,” along with the scientific advancements that don’t always yield hoped- for answers, and the harrowing politics and tangled history of the infamous NYPD. A completely addictive read as admiring of the successes as it is critical of the bureaucracy, The Restless Sleep promises to become a true-crime favorite.
I'm currently working on a book about singing for Algonquin Books. "I believe in singing. I believe in singing together." - Brian Eno. My book is about the history and science of singing together, and about about the world of choral singing.
My most recent book is about the former Duke Parapsychology Laboratory and it's called Unbelievable. Scientists have always disdained parapsychology, but there was a time, from the 30s to the 60s, when the scientific community thought, well, okay, ectoplasm, seances and table rappings aside, maybe there is something going on. Duke opened a lab to study the various phenomena, and for a few decades, a group of serious scientists and graduate students tried to find if there was anything there. My book is about the result of their experiments and investigations.
I grew up on Long Island, got a B.F.A. from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and a graduate degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.
