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Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain

A chilling, groundbreaking investigation into the death of one of the great rock icons of our times — including exclusive access to the case tapes of Courtney Love's former P.I., and a host of compelling new evidence.

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On Friday, April 8, 1994, a body was discovered in a room above a garage in Seattle. For the attending authorities, it was an open-and-shut case of suicide. What no one knew then, however, is that the deceased — Kurt Cobain, the superstar frontman of Nirvana — had been murdered. Drawing on case tapes made by a P.I. hired by Courtney Love when her husband escaped from drug rehab and went missing — and on new forensic evidence and police reports obtained under the Freedom of Information Act — Love & Deathexplodes the long-standing theory that Kurt Cobain took his own life.

Award-winning investigative journalists Max Wallace and Ian Halperin have conducted a ten-year crusade for the truth, and in Love & Deaththey present a stunning, convincing argument that the whole truth has yet to be revealed.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 304 pages

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