In this book, crime writer Val McDermid reveals her admiration for the “amazing” work of forensic scientists who confront the “darkest and most frightening aspects of human behaviour”. While ...

Best-selling crime author Val McDermid has long been fascinated with forensic science. Now she delves into the medical archives to discover the secrets of this incredible field. The dead talk – to the ...

Part of the brain of a young man who shot himself is on display to ‘show the journey of a bullet’. There is also a postmortem table from a London mortuary. Index cards compiled by pathologist Sir ...

One day, more than 750 years ago, the people of a small village in China discovered a member of their community had been repeatedly stabbed and left to die by the edge of a roadside. The murder was a ...

What looks like a 7ft lustrous porcelain meat plate with blood-runnels cast into it stands on two chunky legs. But this spellbinding monstrosity made by Royal Doulton was, until 1944, Rotherhithe ...