The Bone Lady
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The riveting tale of a true-life crime-fighting scientific sleuth.
When a skeleton is all that's left to tell the story of a crime, Mary Manhein, otherwise known as "the bone lady," is called in. For almost two decades, Manhein has used her expertise in forensic anthropology to help law enforcement agents - locally, nationally, and internationally - solve their most perplexing mysteries. In this eerie book she shares the extraordinary details of the often high-profile cases on which she works, and the science underlying her analyses. Here are the fascinating details of how, from a pile of bones, she assesses age, sex, race, signs of trauma, and time of death, and how she can even use clay to re-create a face.
Written with the compassion and humor of a born storyteller, The Bone Lady is an unforgettable glimpse into the lab where one scientist works to reveal the human stories behind the remains.
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An unusual format for a memoir. A set of short stories of different cases that the author has overseen or participated in, rather than a sequential timeline of her life.
The stories are fairly mild compared to many forensic stories one sees on tv and movies these days. And the author does a very good job of providing both the proper, technical term along with a short description or more common term for a bone or a procedure.
In the soft copy there are many pictures of coffins types, difference in bones, and reconstruction of a face in clay and bone.
