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Amber Classics eBook Series

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  • Bodies of Evidence

    by Brian Innes ...
    Series series Amber Classics
    Bodies of Evidence is an informative examination of the science of criminal investigation. It is packed with intriguing case histories involving a variety of forensic evidence and chronicles the role of those who have made the most significant contributions to the fields of toxicology, serology, fingerprinting, forensic ballistics and psychological profiling. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Forensics

    What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime

    by Val McDermid ...
    Bestselling author of Broken Ground "offers fascinating glimpses" into the real world of criminal forensics from its beginnings to the modern day ( The Boston Globe).The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces, forensic scientists ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Poisoner's Handbook

    Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

    by Deborah Blum ...
    **Equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is "a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie." —**The New York Observer**“The Poisoner’s Handbook breathes deadly life into the Roaring Twenties.” —Financial Times“Reads like science fiction, complete with suspense, mystery and foolhardy guys in lab coats ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Written in Bone

    Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

    Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction—A tour through the human skeleton and the secrets our bones reveal, from the author of All That RemainsIn her memoir All That Remains, internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black recounted her life lived eye to eye with the Grim Reaper. During the course of it, she offered a primer on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Taste for Poison

    Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

    “A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.” --Kathy ReichsA brilliant blend of science and crime, A TASTE FOR POISON reveals how eleven notorious poisons affect the body--through the murders in which they were used.As any reader of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring—and popular—weapons of choice for a scheming murderer. It ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of New CSI

    Forensic science in over thirty real-life crime scene investigations

    Series Book 218 - Mammoth Books
    Detailed accounts of over 30 contemporary cases, or older cases reopened as a result of advances in forensic science.Crime scene investigations draw on a wide range of cutting-edge technology including genetic fingerprinting, blood splatter analysis, laser ablation, toxicology and ballistics analysis.Cases covered here include: the abduction of Madeleine McCann; the vindication of Colin Stagg, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • How to Solve a Crime

    Stories from the Cutting Edge of Forensics

    'Endlessly fascinating...meticulously written and thoroughly absorbing book' Financial TimesOut now: *Revised and Updated* The gripping new book by the UK's most eminent forensic scientists, Angela Gallop__________CRIME [Noun]: An action or omission which constitutes an offence and is punishable by lawForensic science is one of the m... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Forensic Science of CSI

    The CBS television show, "C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation," has captured audiences - and ratings - with its unflinchingly realistic details of forensic science, tools, and technology. This fascinating new book - written by an acclaimed biographer with a master's degree in forensic psychology - goes behind the crime-solving techniques dramatized on the TV show to examine the reality of these ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Howdunit Forensics

    A Guide for Writers

    by D.P. Lyle ...
    Just because you don't have all the tools and training of a full-time medical examiner, doesn't mean you can't learn your way around a crime scene.In Forensics, award-winning author and TV show consultant D.P. Lyle, M.D., takes each area of forensicsfrom fingerprint analysis to crime scene reconstructionand discusses its development, how the science works, how it helps in crime solving, and how ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Murder Under the Microscope

    A Personal History of Homicide

    by Jim Fraser ...
    'Jim Fraser has been at the forefront of forensic science in the UK for decades... A superb story of real-life CSI.' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes 'Powerful... Fascinating' Independent Most murders are not difficult to solve. People are usually killed by someone they know, there is usually abundant evidence and the police methods used to investigate this type of crime ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cold Case Files

    by Liz Porter ...
    Cold case investigators scrape back paint in a renovated flat where a murder was committed twelve years earlier, and find a blood stain that leads them to a killer. Scientists extract DNA from crime-scene samples collected in 1973, and a 21st-century hunt for a triple murderer begins. A forensic dentist probes the mysterious death of an ancient Egyptian mummy. A long-forgotten palm print leads ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Please Explain

    Australia's favourite scientist's twenty-sixth book!'What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking ... avoid opinion ... facts are your single clue. Get the facts!'- time Enough for Love, Robert Heinlein Does eating celery make you lighter? Do you have to be dying to have a near-death experience? Is a yawn a silent, natural scream for air; and if a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD