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Forensics what bugs, burns, prints, DNA, and more tell us about crime

Forensics draws on interviews with 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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Main Author:	McDermid, Val (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Grove Press, [2016?]
Subjects:	Crime scene searches. Evidence, Criminal. Forensic sciences. Forensic sciences > History. Criminal investigation > Case studies. True crime stories. Case studies.
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Summary:	Forensics draws on interviews with top-level professionals, ground-breaking research, and McDermid's own original interviews and firsthand experience on scene with top forensic scientists. The dead 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. This book draws on crime novelist McDermid's own 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.
Item Description:	Date of publication from publisher's website. "First published by Profile Books in partnership with Wellcome Collection in the UK in 2014"-- Title page verso. Published in association with Wellcome Collection for the exhibition Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime, curated by Lucy Shanahan and Shamita Sharmacharja.
Physical Description:	ix, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-298) and index.
ISBN:	9780802125156 0802125158
Author Notes:	Val McDermid was born in Scotland on June 4, 1955. She was the first student from a state school in Scotland accepted to read English at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She graduated in 1975 and became a journalist. She wrote her first novel at the age of 21. It didn't get published, but she turned it into a play entitled Like a Happy Ending. It was performed by the Plymouth Theatre Company and was later adapted for BBC radio. Her first book, Report for Murder, was published in 1987. She is the author of the Lindsay Gordon Mystery series, the Kate Brannigan Mystery series, and the Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Mysteries series as well as several stand alone books including The Distant Echo, A Darker Domain, Trick of the Dark and Out of Bounds. The Mermaids Singing won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. (Bowker Author Biography)