The shelf

The cases, at book length

The book behind each case on the board, ranked by which case is moving. Then the shelf.

The book behind the case

Hottest case first. The chip is the case; tap it for the board's file.

1

Delay, Deny, Defend

Jay M. Feinman

The book behind the three words the whole case turned on.

2

The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy

James Patterson & Vicky Ward

The full reported account of the case now sitting in appeal.

3

Murder Rap

Greg Kading

By the detective whose investigation first put Keffe D on the record.

The rest of the shelf

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

Michelle McNamara

The one that made following an open case a thing people do.

Say Nothing

Patrick Radden Keefe

How a killing stays unresolved for fifty years, and what that costs.

Killers of the Flower Moon

David Grann

The Osage murders and the birth of the FBI.

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

Where the genre starts.

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