A review by readingwithlibby
Unnatural Causes by Richard Shepherd

4.0

Going into this book, you have to expect the nature of some of the cases to be quite graphic. However I found some cases which detailed the brutal nature of attacks to be quite triggering. As somebody who has been victim of sexual violence and is a suicide attempt survivor, I found I had to skip past quite a large chunk of the book as I was incredibly triggered. Having said that the book was very well written and was a brilliant insight into what pathologists actually do and how vital forensic pathologists are to police investigations. A brilliant look into the toll being a pathologist can take on personal life and mental health. I am deducting one star for there being no trigger warning for certain cases, however overall I did enjoy the book and if i wasn’t triggered due to personal reasons I think I would have given it 5 stars.