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Informationen zum Autor Michael Capuzzo has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize four times. He is the author of the international bestseller Close to Shore . He lives with his wife and two children in New Jersey. Klappentext The extraordinary true story of the Vidocq Society. Every month the seventy-one members of the Vidocq Society meet to bring their collective wisdom and experience on cold cases - unsolved murders. Named after Eugene Vidocq! the father of modern forensic science! they are one of the world's most exclusive clubs. Made up entirely of retired law-enforcement professionals! the Society includes profilers! criminal psychologists! forensic pathologists and detectives. A number of them are geniuses! their talent for understanding the dark side of human nature difficult to fathom. But that insight makes them more than a match for the psychopaths they've pledged to help bring to justice. Zusammenfassung Three of the world's greatest detectives - a renowned former FBI agent, a forensic sculptor and an eccentric profiler known as 'the living Sherlock Holmes' - were distraught at the growing tide of unsolved murders. And so William Fleisher, Frank Bender and Richard Walter pledged themselves to a quest for justice ...