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Book Review of Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners

Mop Men: Inside the World of Crime Scene Cleaners
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A Danish magazine writer does a feature story on Crime Scene Cleaners, which leads him to a book deal to write more about a business called Crime Scene Cleaners based out of San Francisco, California. For the most part, I liked the book and found it interesting reading. What turned me off of this book was the narrator / author's diversions into other things. For example, he inexplicably writes about visiting a cryonics facility and comparing them to a cult group; this is a topic that only tangentially is related to death and not at all to crime scene clean-up. He also goes on for five or six chapters about a case he refers to as the Bathtub Man, which was just too long. Another reviewer wrote that it seemed like he was just throwing anything in to get to the minimum word count or page number and it surely feels like that. I liked this book, just wished the author would stay on topic.