Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime - Couverture rigide

McDermid, Val

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1781253196 ISBN 13 : 9781781253199

Editeur : Wellcome Collection, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

In her novels, McDermid has been solving complex crimes and confronting unimaginable evil for years. Now, she's looking at the people who do it for real. It's a journey that will take her to war zones, fire scenes and autopsy suites, and bring her into contact with extraordinary bravery and wickedness, as she traces the history of forensics from its earliest beginnings to the cutting-edge science of the modern day.

Revue de presse :

Praise for Val McDermid:

'McDermid has the ruthless psychological scalpel that forms part of the equipment of all good novelists, whatever their genre. And, fortunately for us, she knows just how to use it.

(Guardian)

The sheer brio of McDermid's writing produces that increasingly rare thing, a genuine page-turner that doesn't insult its readers' intelligence. (Independent)

To write one brilliant book is hard. To write 25 is a miracle. That is what Val McDermid has achieved over the course of her career and it's why she is a much-loved legend in the literary world. (Sunday Express) --Sunday Express

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wellcome Collection
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1781253196
• ISBN 13: 9781781253199
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320