Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid

7 reviews

clarabooksit's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Rape, Suicide, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

littlealk7's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

This is a book about the many fields within forensics studies, and each chapter is illustrated by multiple often distributing crime scenes.

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

5.0

This book was very interesting and I learned a lot from it! As someone who wants to work in forensics, this was an incredibly helpful and informative resource!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Bugs are mentioned quite a bit in chapter 3-Forensic Entemology

junglejelly's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

A very engaging read for me.

I enjoyed the covering a lot of topics but found some chapters too short but appreciated the bibliography at the end for further reading.

Another part I appreciated was the reiterations throughout that forensic science doesn't present 100% facts but can just be likeliness or possibilities.

Would really enjoy an updated version with the latest science and technology.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

kalzu's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Rape, Blood, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Genocide, Pedophilia, and Suicide

timeiswasting's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, and Murder

rayne_1906's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

3.75

3 hours 36 minutes - A brief but informative introduction to many aspects of forensic sciences, including many well-known processes (eg. fingerprinting) as well as some I'd never really thought about before (eg. entomology). I enjoyed reading about all the cases both past and present that have used the different forensic techniques discussed. However, sometimes it became a little dull to read, but only on occasions. Overall, a good read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Drug use, Death of parent, and Alcohol