Book: Unnatural Causes

 Book: Unnatural Causes

Author: Richard Shepherd

Pages: 391

This is my 202nd book for the year

This is the story of the author as a Forensic Pathologist.  He uses this book to recount his time from the beginning of his career until present day (for this book when it was published in 2019).  He is a pathologist in the UK.  He recounts stories of crime scenes, bodies in the morgue and his defense in the courtroom of the cases he was in charge of.  Driven by finding the truth, and becoming a top expert in his field, he strives to bring justice to people who were killed or died under circumstances that were not clear.

This was a great book.  It is well written and I became very invested in the stories he was telling of certain cases where the cause of death was not clear.  He was even on a team sent over from Britain for 9/11 and was called in to review the case of Princess Diana.  He weaves his personal life into the story and how he learned to separate his work from his home life.  I learned a lot about forensic pathology and I thought he did a good job of keeping the story for the general writer and did not get overly technical when talking about his work.  He remained honest and self aware throughout.  Glad I read this one.

Stars: 4.5