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YACrime Scene Club: Fact and Fiction series.
High school students assist police using forensic technology in this action-filled series, a mix of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Sweet Valley High. Each tale is followed by a guide to its vocabulary, technology, and background. The factual information is more engaging than the credulity-straining stories with hokey comic-style illustrations. There are six other spring 2009 books in this series. Reading list, websites. Bib., ind. Review covers these Crime Scene Club: Fact and Fiction titles: Close-Up, Devil's Canyon, Face from the Past, Over the Edge, Poison and Peril, and The Trickster's Image.