This book is subtitled "Chronicles of a Crime Scene Reconstructionist" which sounds like it could be really dry and boring. However, it is quite interesting and very readable. Englert is one of the pioneers of the science of reading blood spatters at crime scenes. He was a policeman when he began doing his own experiments using cattle blood from his own farm. Eventually he became the expert that police departments called on to teach their officers and to consult in troubling cases. Because of his expertise he is also one of the go-to guys in high profile cases like that of O.J. Simpson (according to the evidence presented in this book, he was guilty) and Robert Blake (he was probably guilty too.) When testifying in court he does his best to reconstruct events in simple, easy to understand terminology, often using dummies & stage blood, so that jurors can easily understand his testimony. Any fans of shows like "CSI" should read this to find out just how fake a lot of their t.v. science is.
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