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5.0

If you're studying forensics, you'll adore this book! It's the perfect mix of education and intrigue via Sue Black's personal experiences & expertise. This book made me miss doing autopsies & death investigations!

If you like true crime but would fall asleep in an anatomy class, I will say that it can read like a textbook quite often. I still think you should give it a shot, though! Her experiences are so unique due to being in a position unlike many others.

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4.0

You can tell she is an expert in her field because she made such a complex field accessible to learn about. I felt like I learnt so much even if I was a bit too queasy for some of it..

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5.0


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4.0


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4.5


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4.5


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3.5

This was an excellent non-fiction book written by a forensic Anthropologist working in Scotland. I will say that a regular audience picking this book up might find it a bit boring and morbid. But if you are someone that finds medical content fascinating and enjoys anatomy, this is definitely the book for you. I have a background in Anthropology (including some forensic Anthropology), so I was able to connect with a lot of what the author discussed. If you have that background, I highly recommend this book. It was absolutely amazing to hear the very important work that forensic Anthropologists are able to do. With only fragments of bone, they can often determine how someone died and give a body back its identity. They are even able to do this in cold case from decades past. Truly remarkable.

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