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

Forensics

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

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Val McDermid
Val McDermid
2015 • 310 pages

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Draws on interviews with some of the top-level professionals, ground-breaking research, and McDermid's own original interviews and firsthand experience on scene with top forensic scientists.

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Steve Gross

Book ranges from interesting case histories to just a lot of verbiage. Should have had more details.

February 14, 2016
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Mer Barr

Sometimes pretty creepy and gruesome but always fascinating dives into the sciences involved in forensics, across many decades of application.

November 30, 2024

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