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Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain
By Ian Halperin & Max Wallace
Hardcover - 304 pages
Published April 2004
ISBN: 0743484835
Against a background of at least sixty-eight copycat suicides since 1994, award-winning investigative journalists Max Wallace and Ian Halperin have conducted a ten-year crusade for the truth, and in Love & Death they are finally able to present a chilling and convincing case that each and every one of these suicides was preventable -- and in doing so, they call for this case to be reopened and properly investigated.
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Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Mysterious Death of an Icon
By Ian Halperin & Max Wallace
Paperback - 256 pages
Published March 1999 (Revised Edition)
ISBN: 0806520744
"A judicious presentation of explosive material" - The New Yorker.
"People should read this book." - Howard Stern.
A must-read book if you'd like to know more about this case. "Who Killed Kurt Cobain?" has details on Tom Grant's investigation, as well as their own research. There are also interesting chapters detailing a lot of Kurt and Courtney background info. The revised paperback edition has an extra chapter which talks about the Kurt & Courtney film by Nick Broomfield, which Courtney got pulled from Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival in 1998 when she threatened to sue if it was shown. You can also read what the authors went through before the hardcover edition was published a year earlier when Courtney apparently sent a few lawyers/spies to threaten/keep tabs on them. Very interesting reading.
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Kurt Cobain Murder Investigation Manual
By Tom Grant
Since May of 1994, Tom Grant's work on the Cobain Case has been done without charge and at his own expense. Your purchase of the Cobain Case Study Manual helps offset some of the costs involved with this ongoing investigation. Each Cobain Case Study Manual is signed by Tom Grant with a personal note of thanks, by name, to the purchaser. The manual is approximately 150 pages of photographs, police reports, documents and commentary by Tom Grant. A free audio tape is also included.
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Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
By Charles R. Cross
Hardcover - 400 pages
Published August 2001
ISBN: 0786865059
The mainstream press has praised it to high heaven as the Cobain book to buy. However, there are some major issues here. It was a collaboration between Courtney Love and Charles Cross, which is a red flag off the bat. Love is blatantly trying to change history in it, and paint herself and her late husband in a totally different light. Some of it is based on diaries Kurt left behind. Diaries that could have been easily manipulated at some point or another. It's no secret that Kurt was prepared to divorce Courtney before he died. She admits it herself in taped conversations with Tom Grant in 1994 and 1995. People around them have also spoken out about the turmoil between the two at the time. Yet this book wants us to believe that they had a great marriage. Remaining Nirvana members are also accusing Courtney Love of changing history and pasting herself into things so they benefit her. Clearly a slap in the face to them, as well as Kurt's memory. Cross also likes to take speculation and present them the same way as he does facts. He writes of Kurt's last morning like he was actually there. Heavier Than Heaven has some major flaws, so read this book with caution. A lot of conflicting stories and outright lies are spotlighted in a great article by Carolynn Acierno  .
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