Forensics True Crime

De döda talar. Till de som lyssnar. För rätt person avslöjar de allt om sig själva. Var de kommer ifrån och hur de dog. Och vem som dödade dem. Val McDermids Brottets gåta är en lärorik och fascinerande bok för alla deckarläsare. Med hjälp av spår från brottsplatsen kan en kriminaltekniker säkra misstankar och hitta svar på svårlösta gåtor. Vad säger till exempel likmaskar om tidpunkten för ett dödsfall och hur kan mikroskopiska DNA-spår avslöja en mördare?

Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962), born a socialite to a wealthy and influential Chicago family, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity. Yet she became the mother of modern forensics and was instrumental in elevating homicide investigation to a scientific discipline. In 18 Tiny Deaths, Bruce Goldfarb weaves Lee's remarkable story with the advances in forensics made in her lifetime to tell the tale of the birth of modern forensics.

The true story of the men - Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn - who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes. The Ardlamont murder trial, which took place in Edinburgh's High Court in December 1893, was the culmination of one of the most intriguing criminal cases in British legal history. But perhaps more remarkable than that was that it brought together the two principal real-life inspirations behind the creation of the world's favourite fictional consulting detective: Sherlock Holmes.

These seven murderers are perhaps the most sadistic serial killers to ever live. Albert Fish was a rapist, a child killer, and a cannibal who, not satisfied with the torture and murders of his young victims, would write to the parents to detail all of the vile things he did to the children. One such letter in this book. Albert Fish may have been the sickest serial killer to ever live. He would keep his young victims alive for days and beat them constantly to tenderize their flesh for cooking.