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Title: Major disappointment - don't bother buying this!
Review: I have read a number of books on forensics and forensic anthropology and picked up this book eagerly--hoping for insight into the real world of CSI. Unfortunately this book is very poorly written. The legal and grammatical errors were glaring, and made me wonder if anyone at the publisher ever really edited it. It is a dull read, despite the subject-matter, and a hard slog to finish. Shame on Patricia Cornwell for describing it as a "wonderful book"!If you want to know just how well written, informative and thought-provoking books on this topic can be, let me recommend that you look instead at:1. Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death by Jessica Snyder Sachs.2. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach.3. Dead Men Do Tell Tales : The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist by William R. Maples, Michael Browning.
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