Book of the entire year, 2018 Saltire Literary Awards

For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on loss of life and mortality.

Dame Sue Dark is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and individual anatomist. She has lived her lifestyle eye to eyes with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about any of it in this book, which is component primer on the fundamentals of identifying human remains, component frank memoir of a woman whose first paying job as a schoolgirl was to about EVERYTHING Remains: A Famous Forensic Scientist on Loss of life, Mortality, and Solving Crimes apprentice in a butcher shop, and part no-nonsense but deeply humane introduction to the reality of death inside our lives. It really is a delicacy for CSI junkies, murder mystery and thriller visitors, and anyone seeking a clear-eyed guide to a topic that touches people.

Cutting through buzz, romanticism, and cliché, she recounts her first dissection; her own first acquaintance using a cherished one’s death; the mortal remains in her laboratory with burial sites as well as scenes of assault, murder, and criminal dismemberment; and about investigating mass fatalities because of war, accident, or natural devastation, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. She uses essential instances to reveal how forensic research is rolling out and what her work has taught her about individual nature.

Acclaimed by bestselling crime writers and fellow scientists alike, All That Remains is certainly neither sad nor macabre. While Professor Black tells of tragedy, she also infuses her tales having a wicked love of life and much good sense.