‘Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime’ draws on interviews with top experts in the field to delve (in McDermid’s inimitable style) into the questions and mysteries surrounding the science that transformed the justice system: from how evidence is collected at a brutal crime scene to what happens during an autopsy. The book examines the techniques – from blood spatter and DNA analysis to entomology and digital evidence – that experts use to solve crimes.
McDermid revisits famous murder cases and investigations into the living to lay bare the secrets of forensics: from the courts of 17th-century Europe through Jack the Ripper and Victorian poisoners to the cutting-edge science of today.
