Forensics


Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
All That Remains: A Life in Death
Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
Carved in Bone (Body Farm, #1)
The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist
Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death
Red Dragon by Thomas  HarrisI Hunt Killers by Barry LygaLucky Day by Barry LygaGame by Barry LygaBlood of My Blood by Barry Lyga
What Will Graham Reads
22 books — 1 voter
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Medical Microhistories
97 books — 91 voters

Spy... for Nobody! Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence by Basel SaneebKillers of the Flower Moon by David Grannجاسوس من أجل لا أحد by Basel SaneebSpy... for Nobody! by Basel SaneebSpy for nobody by Basel Saneeb
Best FBI Nonfiction
54 books — 18 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachWorking Stiff by Judy MelinekUnnatural Causes by Richard ShepherdHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiPeople Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry
forensics freak
109 books — 18 voters

Magpie Murders by Anthony HorowitzThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Silkworm by Robert GalbraithThe Cuckoo's Calling by Robert GalbraithThe Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths
British Crime Fiction You Must Read
129 books — 64 voters
Disturbed Ground by Carla  NortonAmerican Mother by Gregg OlsenVampire by Kevin M. SullivanKiller Clown by Terry SullivanThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
"The New Detectives" Cases
26 books — 1 voter

True Crime Detectives Guild
What really happened to JonBenet Ramsey? Was her death intentional or an accident, covered up to look like a botched kidnapping? What are the facts about the case DNA? What does it really tell us? Is it relevant to the crime or is it contamination? Can it be tied to an intruder, or was Mary Lacy’s attempt at exoneration of the Ramseys based on faulty interpretation of the actual lab results? “Listen Carefully: Truth and Evidence in the JonBenet Ramsey Case” contains 16 pages of explosive DNA re ...more
True Crime Detectives Guild

Pamela Colloff
…forensic science was facing a sudden reckoning. The advent of DNA analysis in the late 1980s had not only transformed the future of criminal investigations; it also illuminated the past, holding old convictions, and the forensic work that helped win them, up to scrutiny. Rather than affirming the soundness of forensic science, DNA testing exposed its weaknesses. Of the 250 DNA exonerations that occurred by 2010 throughout the United States, shoddy forensic work — which ranged from making basic ...more
Pamela Colloff, Blood Will Tell

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