Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

By Sue Black

Book Overview

From the author of All That Remains, a tour through the human skeleton and the secrets our bones reveal. Longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association ALCS Gold Dagger for Nonfiction. In her memoir... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1956763368
• ISBN13: 9781956763362
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Oof I wish I could give a higher rating

There are so many fascinating small details in this book that really lit up my understanding of the human body. It was very fun to learn so much about skeletons. I knocked off two stars because there's one section where the author is talking about a murdered trans woman and straight up calls her a slur and goes on a weird diatribe about trans and gay people?? Like, it's hard to be trans and this trans woman got stuck doing s*x work before her death but that's no reason to spend two paragraphs ragging on her. She's a murder victim for God's sake. I want to like the book but that part jarred me so badly and just left me very confused. Is that the sort of person you want working on your corpse? Someone who will call you slurs and deadname you if they have a poor opinion of how you lived?

Enticing, educational, and entertaining

One never knows when some small fact will end up providing a crucial clue to solve a murder mystery. This book is full of the kinds of details that shine light on deaths of an indeterminate nature. Ms. Black’s descriptions of crime scenes (via the bones discovered) are memorable.