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A review by julessergio
How to Solve a Murder: True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine by Pauline Tremain, Derek Tremain
2.0
The egotrip that is this book, WOW.
Misleading summary doesn’t even begin to describe it. It is but a series of anecdotes on how absolutely flawless the authors believe they are, with POVs changing in the most poorly written way possible and focusing on all the wrong things. It takes 23 chapters to actually get to interesting true crime cases and even then it is more about Derek reaffirming how essential his sole existence was to England’s justice system than the investigations and processes themselves. Not to mention the amount of times other forensic professionals are undermined as if being specialized in one forensic file was a sin and the number of overtly sexual and sexist comments throughout the whole book. Seriously, don’t waste your time.
Misleading summary doesn’t even begin to describe it. It is but a series of anecdotes on how absolutely flawless the authors believe they are, with POVs changing in the most poorly written way possible and focusing on all the wrong things. It takes 23 chapters to actually get to interesting true crime cases and even then it is more about Derek reaffirming how essential his sole existence was to England’s justice system than the investigations and processes themselves. Not to mention the amount of times other forensic professionals are undermined as if being specialized in one forensic file was a sin and the number of overtly sexual and sexist comments throughout the whole book. Seriously, don’t waste your time.