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Traces: The memoir of a forensic scientist and criminal investigator | Patricia Wiltshire
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'Engrossing, emotionally honest and forensically fascinating' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes In Traces, Professor Patricia Wiltshire will take you on a journey through the fascinating edgeland where nature and crime are intertwined. She'll take you searching for bodies of loved ones - through woodlands, along hedgerows, field-edges, and through plantations - solving time since death, and disposal of remains, from ditches to living rooms. She will give you glimpses of her own history: her loves, her losses, and the narrow little valley in Wales where she first woke up to the wonders of the natural world. Pat will show you how her work with a microscope reveals tell-tale traces of the world around us, and how these have taken suspects of the darkest criminal activities to court. From flowers, fungi, tree trunks to car pedals, walking boots, carpets, and corpses' hair, Traces is a fascinating, unique, and utterly compelling book on life, death, and one's indelible link with nature.
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Patricia Wiltshire is a pioneering forensic ecologist specialising in palynology. She compares the pollen and spores found in a suspect's clothing or vehicle with those at the crime sceneto find out whether the suspect was at the scene or not. If, for example, X says a couple had consensual sex here while Y says it was rape there, Patricia Wiltshire can assess whose story at least gets the location right. 👎

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As she rightly assumes that her readers (at least me) are almost totally ignorant of palynology there is a certain amount of dry technical detail to be explained, but the cases she uses as illustrations and the story of her life are interesting enough to keep the pages turning.
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Imagine, for a moment, that you are walking in a winter wood.

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I managed to get through my 15 hour audio book Traces by Patricia Wiltshire. I enjoyed it but she did trail off a few time's to talk about her 'loving husband' and what he did which made no sense because he does the same as her minus the dead body! Anyway she has a cold way of looking at death and the dead some of it i didn't agree with including the body farms @Hestapleton

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1: Traces by Patricia Wiltshire
2: most of my read 'have read' list
3: Good old brew (cup of tea)

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain 😘

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I have chosen these two books for my #slumpathon #readathon my shifts at work have changed to day shifts so I'm not too sure how much I am going to get finished.
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#currentlyreading #audiobook #readingthelibrary #librarybook #reading #femaleauthor #readathon #slumpathon #audiobooks #murder #death #killing #girlpower

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