Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain
by Atria

	Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain
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Book Description

<B><CENTER>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.</CENTER></B><P>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 -- <I>Love & Death</I> explodes the long-standing theory that Kurt Cobain took his own life.<P>Award-winning investigative journalists Max Wallace and Ian Halperin have conducted a ten-year crusade for the truth, and in <I>Love & Death</I> they present a stunning, convincing argument that the whole truth has yet to be revealed.

Reader Reviews

I thought this would just be a throw-away book, a sensationalistic attempt to spin another angle on Cobain's 1994 "suicide." But the book seems well-researched and fairly well written. Its basic premise, which it attempts to document largely through interview data--along with some new forensic evidence and documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act--is that Cobain was planning to divorce Courtney Love just before her career really took off. When they married they had signed a pre-nup, which made him next to worthless to her alive and divorced. But AFTER they signed it, he made a meteoric rise to fame and fortune while she remained ambitious but not yet the rich grunge goddess that she was to become. With Kurt dead, she got her money and his. Courtney is portrayed as one of the hardest bitches anyone is likely to come across. Forget the fact that she was a junkie . . . she was one of those young women with a bad childhood, who decided to claw her way to the top without scruples or regrets. To hear the authors tell it, many people in this case are afraid of her and so have never really spoken out. And she did reach a point of some influence and wealth, right after his timely (for her) demise. So she hired a hit man, intimidated some and bought off others, allowing the hoax of his suicide to go forward. The authors hope their volume will reopen the case, to at last find justice and stem the tide of copycat suicides that followed. I ended the book convinced that this was a matter that should be looked into further.