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Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain Death" reached #18 on the New York Times Bestseller list in April 2004. Shortly after the book's release, the television show "Dateline NBC" aired a segment critically examining some of the book's conclusions. British newspaper The Guardian described the book as "valuably different in tone to everything else you'll read on the subject." Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain, published by Simon & Schuster, is a collaborative investigative journalism book written by Ian Halperin and Max Wallace purporting to show that rock star Kurt Cobain, believed to have committed suicide,