Grade 4–6—These titles streamline forensics with short, informative sentences and large typeface. Each one walks readers through a case that is solved by the conclusion. The books begin with the discovery of a body (Bone Detectives), or a bank robbery (Prints), and continue with steps such as examining the size and shape of a skeleton to determine a victim's characteristics and cause of death, or comparing crime-scene fingerprints to those in a police database. The labeled illustrations enhance the mystery and allow readers to follow the methodology used in CSI. Bone Detectives deals with death in a factual manner, omitting gruesome details. Questions are intermittently posed, and the answers are contained in bubbles on the same page.
