BOOK 217: NO STONE UNTURNED: THE TRUE STORY OF THE WORLD'S PREMIER FORENSIC INVESTIGATORS: STEVE JACKSON

A body stuffed in a car trunk swallowed by the swirling, muddy waters of the Missouri River. A hiker brutally murdered, then thrown off a cliff in a remote mountain range. A devious killer who hid his wife's body under a thick cement patio. For investigators, the story is often the same: they know a murder took place, they may even know who did it. But without key evidence, pursuing a conviction is nearly impossible. That's when they call NecroSearch International. Necrosearch boasts a brain trust of the nation's top scientists, specialists, and behaviourists who use the latest technology and techniques to help solve "unsolvable" crimes, no matter how decayed the corpse, no matter how cleverly the killer has hidden the victim's body. Now, for the first time ever, readers are taken on a fascinating, often-shocking journey into a realm of crime investigation of which few people are aware. Necrosearch's most challenging cases are described, step-by-step, as these modern-day Sherlock Holmes's detect bodies and evidence thought irretrievable, and testify in court to bring cold-blooded killers to justice.

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MY VERDICT: I have been looking forward to reading this book for a really long time. It wasn’t quite as exciting as I thought it would be, but it was very interesting. The way that scientific methods and experiments can be used to help the police solve long thought unsolvable cases is fascinating and I was pleasantly surprised that a lot of this book introduce us to the forensic investigators and make them characters in the story too. A thought-provoking read but not an enthralling page-turner all the way through.