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A review by irenealgi
Unnatural Causes by Richard Shepherd
5.0
I stumbled upon this book by chance - I was flicking through the audiobook catalogue from my local library when I saw this title and tapped on it. It sounded interesting, so I looked it up on Goodreads. And it had good reviews, so I requested it.
When I first started listening to it, I was fascinated by the narration, the intimate details, the feeling that this was more a memoir than a book on forensic pathology. And it is. And it isn't.
The writing is sound, the way it's been structured works very well and the cases he covers are all interesting in different ways. From this book I've learned many things, such how sometimes marriages die over the span of 30 years, or how the truth is sometimes a lot harder to identify than we may think. It touches upon a wide range of topics such as governmental response in a crisis, academia and politics, court, parenthood, trends in medical diagnosis, medicine in general, PTSD and the different ways in which a body - slowly - dies, and the variables that interact with that process.
It was all in all an excellent book, and an interesting surprise.
When I first started listening to it, I was fascinated by the narration, the intimate details, the feeling that this was more a memoir than a book on forensic pathology. And it is. And it isn't.
The writing is sound, the way it's been structured works very well and the cases he covers are all interesting in different ways. From this book I've learned many things, such how sometimes marriages die over the span of 30 years, or how the truth is sometimes a lot harder to identify than we may think. It touches upon a wide range of topics such as governmental response in a crisis, academia and politics, court, parenthood, trends in medical diagnosis, medicine in general, PTSD and the different ways in which a body - slowly - dies, and the variables that interact with that process.
It was all in all an excellent book, and an interesting surprise.