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Forensics

What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime

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The dead talk - to the right listener. They can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help serve justice using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces. Forensics draws on interviews with some of these top-level professionals, groundbreaking research, and Val McDermid's own original interviews and firsthand experience on scene with top forensic scientists.

Along the way McDermid discovers how maggots collected from a corpse can help determine one's time of death; how a DNA trace a millionth the size of a grain of salt can be used to convict a killer; and how a team of young Argentine scientists led by a maverick American anthropologist were able to uncover the victims of a genocide. It's a journey that will take McDermid to war zones, fire scenes, and autopsy suites and bring her into contact with both extraordinary bravery and wickedness as she traces the history of forensics from its earliest beginnings to the cutting-edge science of the modern day.

©2015 Val McDermid (P)2015 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Biological Sciences Criminology Law Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Science Social Sciences Forensics Crime Highlander Mental Health
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This was a really interesting listen! The stories woven in with the history and facts were perfectly balanced. I learned so many new things and examples I had never heard of before.

Very interesting- Learned a lot

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I really enjoyed every minute of thos book. It was very informative, interesting and fun! Very well put together too. Definitely worth your credit.

Loved it!

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A good book can easily be reduced to lesser by the way in which it is told. Val gave us a concise history of forensics from its birth, through to the present day. An interesting and thought provoking read!
Sarah as raconteur, brought tales of death to life, using voice intonation to perfection, to narrate different characters throughout.

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