WordCrime is the new book by John Olsson about how Linguistics can be used to help solve crimes. The book contains reports on famous forensic linguistics cases Olsson has investigated, including murders, assaults, robberies, narcotics investigations, people smuggling and other major crimes. He operates the website http://www.thetext.co.uk which is the world's longest established forensic linguistics consultancy. The book is all about language clues in crime. Prof. David Crystal has called the book 'fascinating' for 'anyone with the slightest interest in language'.
I just bought the book; now I can't get anything done because I can't put it down.
tll1 9 months ago