02842cam a2200337 i 4500 2659281783 TxAuBib 20260120120000.0 161017t20162014||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780802125156 paperback 0802125158 paperback (OCoLC)961146077 TxAuBib rda Forensics : What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime / Val McDermid. What bugs, burns, prints, DNA, and more tell us about crime. New York : Grove Press, [2016] ©2014. ix, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-298) and index. The Crime Scene -- Fire Scene Investigation -- Entomology -- Pathology -- Toxicology -- Fingerprinting -- Blood Spatter and DNA -- Anthropology -- Facial Reconstruction -- Digital Forensics -- Forensic Psychology -- The Courtroom -- Conclusion. 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. 20260120. Forensic sciences.