All That Remains:A Life in Death, by Sue Black

I had assumed this would be like that other book I'd read about death - the one where she visits a place where they leave human bodies to decay to help understand things better to help with forensic investigations. But it was more about autopsies, and a fair amount of low-grade philosophical musings on how death ("she" is someone we should get to know better, we never know when we'll meet "her" etc. etc.) which I wasn't very interested in

By the end of the book I'd warmed to her but for the first half I was disappointed because it was not the book I'd expected. There was a good bit about murderers having trouble disposing of bodies because they're quite heavy, harder than you imagine to cut up, and in most cases a murderer won't have thought ahead of time of how to do this. I was reminded of this afterwards while reading news reports of the murder of Grace Millane.

I read on kindle, forgetting that I had the audiobook of it.

Completed : 29-Oct-2019

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