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Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime | Val McDermid Books



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About Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime by Val McDermid


Description from Amazon UK: "The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died - and who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help justice to be done using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene or the faintest of human traces.


Forensics draws on interviews with top-level professionals, ground-breaking research and Val McDermid's own experience to lay bare the secrets of this fascinating science. And, along the way, she wonders at how maggots collected from a corpse can help determine 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 uncovered the victims of a genocide."


Publisher ‏ : ‎ Profile Books; Main edition (5 Feb. 2015)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781781251706

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1781251706


Paperback rankings on Amazon UK (17/04/2022):

14 in Forensic Medicine

2,154 in Biographies & Memoirs (Books)

4,787 in Society, Politics & Philosophy

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