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Summary: Looking for a good true crime book???
Review: Being a criminal justice major, I love to read true crime stories. Fuhrman does a great job of laying out the elements of the murder of Martha Moxley. He presents the evidence in the chronological order in which it was discovered, making it easy to comprehend the investigation. Moreover, he does an excellent job of breaking down, analyzing, and cross-referencing his research. His objective approach makes it easy to formulate your own opinions and suspicions. It's hard to put this book down! If you like true crime stories, give this one a whirl.
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Summary: Mark Fuhrman, you are THE DETECTIVE of all Detectives!
Review: Please look into the murder of JONBENET RAMSEY!!!!
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Summary: A Page Turner! I couldn't put it down!
Review: This book was given me as a gift. I ended up reading it in less than two days! Each chapter gripped me with it's thorough research and detail. Mark Fuhrman is truly a brilliant author and he didn't leave any stone unturned. Even though he was greeted in Greenwich with hostility and no cooperation, under these difficult conditions, he still managed to turn out a spellbinding book. I can't wait to read his other book, murder in Brentwood. And I'm also thrilled that this book helped bring another Kennedy relative to face the law for his crime.
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Summary: Disgusting
Review: Okay, so the man supposedly finds a key piece of evidence in a sensational murder case in Los Angeles. What right does that give Mark Furhman to be an expert on every murder case? Fuhrman thinks he has a right to be Columbo now, I guess. Obviously the real reason that Fuhrman wrote this book was an attempt (using a case that, to his credit, did seem to have many problems in the investigation) to restore Fuhrman's tattered, ugly and racist image. Regardless of whether one believes Fuhrman planted evidence in the Simpson case or not, most normal Americans were outraged at what Mark Furhman was recorded saying on tape: undeniable hatred of blacks and willingness to frame and beat blacks because of their skin color. Yet because this Greenwich case did eventually get resolved, Fuhrman is given credit for solving this case. (...)
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Summary: a murder in my youth an obsession in adulthood
Review: if you have not already become familier with martha moxley and the tragedy of her murder (still legally unsolved) you owe it to yourself and every 15 year old girl you know to read this book. once again you experience just what the wealthy in this country are capable of doing....and more importantly covering up! mr. fuhrman is a fantastic homicide detective and really has managed to hit the nail on the head with this one. hopefully i will get to see justice served (for once) in my lifetime as this murder case is still winding it's way through the legal system even as i type.
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Summary: A bit too many pages for too little information
Review: Mark Fuhrman has turned out to be a pretty good true crime detective, in part, because he knows how a murder investigation should be done. His insight is a big plus. In this book, however, there isn't enough known to make it over 300 pages long. There is simply too much repetition of the same information. If the CT police had not done such a poor job of investigating, I cannot imagine that there would be enough information to write 100 pages.
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Summary: Interesting case, lousy book
Review: Perhaps Harpercollins should have called this book, "How Mark Fuhrman Solved the Martha Moxley Murder." This narcissistic book is poorly written and presented. I was very disappointed.
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Summary: Confused
Review: I'm wondering if I read the same book as the other reviewers. After reading Murder in Greenwich, I wasn't convinced of any guilt on the part of the Skakel brothers. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't be surprised if one or both of them were responsible, but Mr. Fuhrman left everything extremely ambigious. I don't see any conclusive evidence whatsoever, just conjecture.I was greatly disappointed in the inaccuracies of the author's drawings, printed just one page apart. Isn't he supposed to be so thorough? Jeez, it's Walsh Ave. on one sketch, Walsh Lane on the next. The pool house is not in the same location in each drawing. Why didn't an editor pick up on this inconsistency? It certainly sounds as if the Greenwich Police Department bungled this investigation. In the book, however, Mr. Fuhrman doesn't point this out or let us come to that conclusion, he tries to rub their noses in it...again and again and yet again. Makes him seem trite and snide. This after he writes early on that he isn't out to rip the police dept. Right. I don't think our judicial system is working very well, and can't stand to see the inconsistencies vis-a-vis race and socioeconomic status. But the author didn't offer evidence, merely speculative scenarios.
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Summary: Thought provoking!
Review: Mark Furhman used basic Law Enforcement Detective skills to investigate the Martha Moxley murder. What's disturbing as you read this book, is that Furhman pieced together more evidence in 1999, that the Greenwich Police Department who investigated the ACTUAL crime scene 24 years ago in 1975. It's too bad that the Greenwich Police Department didn't have Mark Furhman as one of their Detective's in 1975. The case regarding Martha Moxley would have been solved and tried in the courts years ago! Furhman wrote a wonderful book that looked at the crime scene and all involved with it, in great detail. I look forward to hopefully many more books from Mark Furhman in the future!
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Summary: Examining the Evidence
Review: After hearing about the Moxley case recently in the news, curiosity dictated I read the book to see how it may have jumpstarted an investigation into a very old crime. My conclusion was that it factually embarrassed people into the hard decision of finally doing something about it. I seldom read true crime books. I was able to follow Mark's reasoning fairly well until he drew his hypothesis of what he thought happened on the evening of October 30, 1975. Then, his investigative intuition left me in the dust! Somehow, I just didn't get to that same place with him. Irregardless of the outcome, the book served its purpose. Isn't that really all you could hope for? Nice job!
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