cover image The Blooding

The Blooding

Joseph Wambaugh. Bantam, $7.5 (432pp) ISBN 978-0-553-28281-8

Wambaugh's latest triumphant venture into true crime turns to Leicestershire, England, and the slayings of two teenagers, killings that were eventually solved through scientist Alec Jeffreys's discovery of genetic fingerprinting. ``As Wambaugh's fans have come to expect, this is an eminently readable and most impressive book,'' praised PW. (Dec.)