In this compelling and chilling memoir, a top forensic investigator lifts the lid on the most notable and notorious murder investigations of his forty-year career.
How is murder investigated and what role does forensic science play in solving cases? In this gripping book Jim Fraser gives a unique insight into forensic science and examines in detail some of the UK's most high-profile murder investigations in recent decades, including the deaths of Rachel Nickell, Damilola Taylor and Gareth Williams the GCHQ code breaker.
Drawing on his personal experience as a forensic scientist and cold case reviewer, Fraser reveals how each of these cases unfolded as a human, investigative and scientific puzzle, and how some were solved and why others remain unsolved or controversial even today.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
352 pages
Publication:
2020
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1786495945
ISBN13:
9781786495945
kindle Asin:
B08J1575RT
Murder Under The Microscope: A Personal History of Homicide
In this compelling and chilling memoir, a top forensic investigator lifts the lid on the most notable and notorious murder investigations of his forty-year career.
How is murder investigated and what role does forensic science play in solving cases? In this gripping book Jim Fraser gives a unique insight into forensic science and examines in detail some of the UK's most high-profile murder investigations in recent decades, including the deaths of Rachel Nickell, Damilola Taylor and Gareth Williams the GCHQ code breaker.
Drawing on his personal experience as a forensic scientist and cold case reviewer, Fraser reveals how each of these cases unfolded as a human, investigative and scientific puzzle, and how some were solved and why others remain unsolved or controversial even today.