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    Forensics by Val McDermid

    Interesting look at the myths and realities of CSI (from a UK perspective, which makes a refreshing change).

    Started with the shooting of PC Sharon Beshenivsky in 2005 and the steps taken to find the perps.

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      Norse Mythologies Neil Gaiman

      Very good read
      Me, me, me...

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        Everywoman: One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth by Jess Phillips
        First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. But Gandhi never had to deal with HMRC

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          Not Tonight, Josephine: A Road Trip Through Small-Town America – George Mahood
          “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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              Reading Sam Hughes - Fine Constant

              Seriously hard sci-fi. I think my brain is starting to leak out of my ears...
              Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
                With handy pitchfork for when one needs one's butler to shoo them away

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                  Fine Structure by Sam Hughes

                  If you like hard science fiction.
                  Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                    Just Mercy by Bryan Stephenson.

                    Stephenson has worked for over 30 years trying to reverse miscarriages of justice. Most of his clients are black, because there are way more of them.

                    He's persuaded the Supreme Court to rule that the death penalty and imprisonment without possibility of parole for people convicted as children is unconstitutional, and obtained the release of many people massively unfairly sentenced to death or imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He's forced many retrials where evidence supportive of the defendant was withheld, or juries were appointed who were self-confessedly biased. And he's successfully forced prisons to reform the most egregious abuses of prisoners, especially towards the disabled, children and women.

                    But it's all in a readable, non-preachy, non-judgemental manner. The US justice system seems FUBAR at times, but reading this gives a little hope.
                    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                      Ra by Sam Hughes

                      If you like hard and really weird science fiction.
                      Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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