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Article: Little heat in Cold Case story
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 17, 2005
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The good news is that Stacy Horn has done exactly what she set out
to do provide a behind-the-scenes look at New York City's Cold Case
squad.
The bad news, as she notes, is that "much of a Cold Case
detective's time is spent sitting around," and it's very hard to make
a book about sitting around interesting.
Moreover, she follows several cases, skipping around between them,
interspersing information about the history of police labs, (eight
pages alone on the booking process, the events that transpire after
an alleged criminal is arrested) so it's often difficult to keep
track of all the names and all that occurred several chapters before.
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