If you look at the bibliography, you will see that this is not your standard type of Batman book. In fact, this could almost be about any character, barring the being rich, having a Butler, a cape, and a very brief encounter with The Scarecrow, and Catwoman. These are all detailed as notes in Case Files, not as stanard fictional third or first person stories, however.

It is set in the Year One to Year Two time, before he is working with Grayson.

Basically, it is hardcore explanation of forensic crime fighting details, with serious levels of scientific detail. Think, CSI, but not cheesy tv-pseudo-science crapola. Very interesting. In fact, one of the characters is one of these sort of techs, and a forensic anthropologist makes some appearances, as does a coroner, multiple times. So if you are a little squeamish about slicing and dicing dead bodies, you would want to avoid this.

I would recommend this to people who are interested in that sort of thing, in general. If you inserted Detective John Smith here, there would not be too much difference, so those after superheroic crimefighting quite possibly would be disappointed, and shouldn't buy it.

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