Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have been in law enforcement for close to 30 years on a large agency- I am always on the lookout for useful tools of the trade that I can use and pass along to my investigators. This book is great! It is packed with useful information. No, I am not a shill for this book and do not know the author- although I have met many professional law enforcement investigators who have written good books and manuals. I am impressed with the insights and natural techniques contained in this book. I am ordering a copy for all the investigators in my unit, I am that impressed with this book. Sure, there is always something about any book that does not satisfy a reader- but I honestly must say there is little about this book that I didn't like. UPDATE 6/2016: It's been over 7 years since I wrote this review. Time flies... I still regard this is a "great book" and highly recommend. I since have retired from my command position with the department I worked for (retired 3/14), where I was in charge (Captain) of the investigative units that handled homicides, sexual assaults, child abuse, domestic violence, internet crimes against children, juvenile division, elder abuse, financial crimes. Feel free to look at the size of the agency- [...] My rank was Captain, and the entire investigative division was the Central Investigations Division. Over my nearly 4 decades in law enforcement (since retirement I have joined another agency as an investigator), I have raked in hundreds of training hours attending countless classes, seminars, conferences dealing with advanced investigative techniques- including interviewing and interrogation, reading body language, etc. Additionally, I still teach in-service and college level criminal justice courses to investigators and those majoring in criminal justice. I am presently an adjunct college instructor in criminal justice. I believe I can rate this book with some "authority" as to its subject matter, and my rating of it as a 5 star book still stands, and still being great, is based on my experience(s). I have in fact purchased copies of this book for those who have worked for me. I still highly recommend this book. A few "commentators" over the years have attacked my initial review and tried to discredit it by questioning the veracity of my claim to being in law enforcement in a command position over an investigative unit. They based their opinion seemingly on the basis of their "CSI TV influenced deductions" that because of the venacular I used in my review, I "obviously", by one commentator's deduction, was not from any known (at least to that persons vast experience) law enforcement genre. Nor would any law enforcement command-type person, again in their opinion or vast LE "experience", ever purchase anything for their subordinates. All I can say to them is wow..."get a life" and please move on (and I hope you never get jury duty for anything truly important). To those 600+ people who found my intital review helpful, thank you for apparently believing I am who I professed to be in my initial review, which was the basis for that review. The author of this book, and this book, is deserving!