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  • The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator
  • By: Patricia Wiltshire
  • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
  • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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Traces

By: Patricia Wiltshire
Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
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Publisher's Summary

In Traces, Professor Patricia Wiltshire will take you on a journey through the fascinating edgeland where nature and crime are intertwined.

She'll take you searching for bodies of loved ones - through woodlands, along hedgerows, field-edges, and through plantations - solving time since death, and disposal of remains, from ditches to living rooms.

She will give you glimpses of her own history: her loves, her losses, and the narrow little valley in Wales where she first woke up to the wonders of the natural world. Pat will show you how her work with a microscope reveals tell-tale traces of the world around us, and how these have taken suspects of the darkest criminal activities to court.

From flowers, fungi, tree trunks to car pedals, walking boots, carpets, and corpses' hair, Traces is a fascinating, unique, and utterly compelling audiobook on life, death, and one's indelible link with nature.

©2019 Patricia Wiltshire (P)2019 Bonnier Books UK

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"Engrossing, emotionally honest and forensically fascinating." (Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes)

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Very interesting but

maybe the narrator could have made the author sound less arrogant..? Otherwise a very interesting listen.

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nerdgasm

I downloaded this as I enjoy true crime memoirs from the justice side. What I got was the most outstanding, intelligent and witty point of view that I didn't even know I needed to know more about til I read about it. The authors passion about plant life, fungi, animals, landscape and her general surroundings are expressed with so much enthusiasm, that I was swept up with excitement with the author, despite not knowing what plant she was particularly hyped about. Her enthusiasm for the nerdier, more intelligent pursuits in her life was almost addictive as the chapters passed. If this woman does not have a plant, fungi or something from nature newly discovered, immediately named after her, it's a grave injustice.

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Fascinating and captivating

When I finished the book, it felt as if I had lost a friend. This remarkable scientist revealed a world so fascinating in such a captivating style, that I could not stop listening to it. It must me a delight to share her life.

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Big Ego

Author came across as arrogant. Put me off, couldn’t listen after chapter 5. Even though interesting topic.

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