Reviews

Death Scenes: A Homicide Detectives Scrapbook by Sean Tejaratchi, Dunn Katherine

circularcubes's review

3.0

Interesting, but hard to stomach. I wish there was more text, and more context in general - the introductory essay was fascinating, but the rest of the book felt more like gawking at gore than anything, and I wouldn't necessarily recommend it.

I did learn, however, that the dentist's office across the street from where my childhood dentist's office was (and in the same plaza where one of my favorite Hawaiian barbecue chain restaurant was located) was the scene of a very gory murder back in the 1940s. I'd always wondered about that place, too, since it was so clearly a house turned dental office! Weird.

kirstinreviews's review

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Honestly, a book that any true crime fan should read. It helps bring back reality into these crimes by showing you actual photographs of the bodies. Definitely a disturbing read, but a necessary one. 

bepbop's review

dark sad tense slow-paced

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Gun violence, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Racial slurs, Death, Chronic illness, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Genocide, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual content, Child death, Sexual violence, Violence, Car accident, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Vomit, Self harm, and Slavery

nomenomen's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

3.0

ella_reads_books's review against another edition

dark informative reflective

5.0

saekoshiro's review

5.0

Gruesome, fsscinating, sad. REAL.

eleellis's review

5.0

This is one of the more graphic collections of old crime scene photographs.

debumere's review

5.0

Grim.

rhia_williams's review against another edition

dark

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Child death, and Murder

deniizzze's review against another edition

dark informative sad fast-paced

Good book 👍