Errol Morris

Very detailed and exhaustive. I found this quite interesting and stuck with it through to the end. Admittedly, it is not as well structured as some other true crime out there but it does what is most important; it conveys the complexity of the case against Jeffrey McDonald and his innocence claim.

Morris builds a very good book on knowledge, its mysteries and distortions. His approach is really compelling, sometimes even obsessive. The best part of the book is the first one, based o the story of the two famous pictures taken by Roger Fenton during the Crimean war (and previously discussed by Susan Sontag). The following chapters use the same discovery pattern and get progressively less effective.

A close but informal look at photography, journalism, history, propaganda, and truth using a half-dozen or so examples. Very educational and thought-provoking. As the jacket copy says "part detective story, part philosophical meditation."