Cold Crime - Softcover

How Alaska's criminal cases were solved. COLD CRIME is a collection of stories about some of Alaska's high-profile criminal investigations of the past half-century. Step by step, journalist Tom Brennan walks readers through thirteen notorious cases, drawing details from the confidential files of Alaska police detectives who investigate murder, mayhem, crimes of passion and greed, and an amazing amount of criminal stupidity. Read about: A long-running child-custody dispute linked to a fatal car bombing and murder-for-hire in Anchoraage. Investigators who trick a suspect into confessing to arson fires terrorizing the people of Ketchikan. The public uproar over a light sentence given to the "deadly dentist" whose patients keep dying. The mortician's assistant who discovers his boss is mistreating the dead and cheating their next of kin. Tom Brennan, author of the bestselling MURDER AT 40 BELOW, cut his teeth in journalism on the police beat.

A native of Massachusetts, Tom Brennan is a newspaper columnist and witty fellow who cut his teeth in journalism on the police beat.