Medium – Audiobook
About the Book – Crime Writer Val McDermid investigates the use of forensics in the solving of crime, looking at various areas of forensic enquiry, such as forensic psychology, forensic accounting and digital investigation, pathology and forensic anthropology, alongside many others. She interviews mainly British/Irish experts from across those disciplines, discussing the ways in which they solve crime and how the methods of crime detection have evolved since their inception.
My Rating – 3/5
My Thoughts – This book was one I had picked up for £3 from an audible sale, and I didn’t really know much about it until I started listening to it (except that it was about forensics!). There were a few things I really enjoyed about it – I really liked the way that the author had organised the different disciplines in forensic science into chapters, I really enjoyed the narrator. Some of the chapters were fascinating, such as the one on forensic anthropology (which may be a hangover from my 2000s love of the American TV show ‘Bones’) and the one on pathology.
Overall, though, I found the book just a little dull in places, which is surprising given the subject matter. It wasn’t a bad book, and I really enjoyed McDermid’s writing style, I just found that bits weren’t particularly interesting to me. But, as with all reviews on this blog, that is a very personal review – this is very much my opinion and others may really enjoy the book. It’s the ideal book if you are super interested in forensics or you would like to think about the different areas of forensics you might be interested in. Not an audiobook I would listen to again, but it has interested me in reading some of McDermid’s novels or the works of Sue Black, one of the forensic anthropologists interviewed for the book.
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