This is the companion book to a Brad-Pitt-narrated PBS series by the same name. I haven’t had time to write a formal review of the book yet, but the PBS series is quite good. One of the episodes is on YouTube and the others may or may not be available online depending on how clever you are at searching.
Along the same lines, I would also recommend Unnatural Causes, which can be very difficult to find, but is a great series.