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No Stone Unturned: The True Story of NecroSearch International, the World's Premier Forensic Investigators
Steve Jackson
4.18 AVERAGE
112 reviews for:
No Stone Unturned: The True Story of NecroSearch International, the World's Premier Forensic Investigators
Steve Jackson
4.18 AVERAGE
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informative
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slow-paced
Disappointing read. Writer spent so much time introducing every single person in the book, their history and why they were involved in forensics, that I got bored before we even got to the cases! Look, the reason people read CSI/Bones type stuff is to find out how they identify the victim and catch the bad guy. A little gore is good too. But the author spent far too much time on the investigators and hardly any on the cases. There were about 5 cases in here and chapters full of how they decided to open NecroSearch (that's a terrible name, BTW) and what they all did. Don't bother with this one.
This was a really interesting book. I would have given it 5 stars except for one small section where it seemed to bog down in the telling of searching rock quarries for a buried car. That section really needed some tighter editing, because it just went on and on. Other than that and some awkward sentence structures, this was a very, very good read.
I love reading books and learning new things. In this book, I was introduced to the science behind finding clandestine graves. There really is a lot that goes into discovering where the bad guy dumps and/or buries the body.
I love reading books and learning new things. In this book, I was introduced to the science behind finding clandestine graves. There really is a lot that goes into discovering where the bad guy dumps and/or buries the body.
I really enjoyed this book, I enjoyed the case examples especially, but the history of individuals and how their career has panned out was really interesting as well.
I read this as an audiobook and I loved everything about it. The stories, the narrator, learning about the Pig People. I couldn’t stop listening. A new favourite!
science! pigs! dogs! teamwork! stubbornness! trying new things! letting people be experts at what they're experts at and working together! using all these things and more to solve old crimes that people thought could never be solved! lots of 90s/early 00s anecdotes and prose!
A very engaging read. Non-fiction that reads like fiction. Jackson pulls the reader into the stories of Necosearch's investigations in a way that makes me feel like I'm watching Cold Case Files.
Audio book review.
A really interesting non-fiction on the ever-evolving field of forensic science, and how it basically starts with someone asking a really good question that no one has ever considered before. I didn't realize there's technology to find disturbed soil, because it will never go back to being what it was before. And there are dogs who will find dead bodies and those who will find live bodies, and you can't really make them do both if they have a preference. I also learned to ask an expert with a tough question, even if that person is in a completely different field of study. Truly a fascinating read!
A really interesting non-fiction on the ever-evolving field of forensic science, and how it basically starts with someone asking a really good question that no one has ever considered before. I didn't realize there's technology to find disturbed soil, because it will never go back to being what it was before. And there are dogs who will find dead bodies and those who will find live bodies, and you can't really make them do both if they have a preference. I also learned to ask an expert with a tough question, even if that person is in a completely different field of study. Truly a fascinating read!
So like, this book was fascinating, but there was quite a bit that just didn't hold up over time (even with the additional epilogue from 2015), mainly outdated ideas about sex, gender, addiction, race, etc. The way the author wrote off addicts and sex workers as the dregs of society was frankly exhausting. Dehumanizing of indigenous peoples ("the Navajo girl" was mentioned over and over but NEVER HER FUCKING NAME—WHY??? YOU NAMED THE WHITE GIRL IN THE SAME FUCKING SENTENCE). Something something he was raised by good Christian people something something you could tell he was trying to be a man & not cry something something something.
Other than that, the science and cases were interesting and I now know way more about electromagnometers than I ever hoped or dreamed I would.
Other than that, the science and cases were interesting and I now know way more about electromagnometers than I ever hoped or dreamed I would.
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
medium-paced