The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington

 

Not a novel, which ... well ... some of the events described in the book would stretch credulity in fiction. It's a book about the lies we tell ourselves about the criminal justice system, and it kinda indirectly raises some of the questions some of the novels I've read the past few months have, about true crime as entertainment--I think this book is less opposed to it than some of those novels, just more skeptical about the magic of forensic science. The upshot: Judges should not be the ones deciding what scientific (or "scientific") evidence is admissible--they are, as it happens, really bad at it.