Crypt

Within it's category it is a perfect book, Didactic, but very readable - it explains the issues and how science helps in uncovering “who did it” and also some little jewels along the way (how to estimate the umber of bodies when all you have is a pile of bones is a good one. Coincidently i really enjoyed the Mary Rose chapter having just finished a Novel that climaxed on the the ship on its last days. I will go back and read her earlier ones.

I enjoyed this a lot, there were some things I'd never really heard about and some others I had but this went into a lot more detail about them so I liked learning more.

This is perhaps a little on the academic side if this is someone's first book on some of the subjects, as the author delves into paleopathology as well genomics, genetics, virology, microbiology and biomechanics.

I'll be looing for the other books by the author as this was my first from her.