26 Top audiobook books like The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace by Patricia Wiltshire

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The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

By: Patricia Wiltshire

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative that explores the valuable but often s…

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace by Patricia Wiltshire , here is a list of 26 books like this:

Cover of The Want-Ad Killer by Ann Rule

1. The Want-Ad Killer

By: Ann Rule

3.59

Format: 378 pages,

After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipula… read more

Similar categories in Ann Rule's The Want-Ad Killer book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption by Hillel Levin, James Keene

2. In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption

By: Hillel Levin , James Keene

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Featured on Dateline and CNN, the true story of a young man destined for greatness on the football … read more

Similar categories in Hillel Levin's In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

3. Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales

By: William M. Bass , Jon Jefferson

3.66

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Dr. Bill Bass, one of the world's leading forensic anthropologists, gained international attention … read more

Similar categories in William M. Bass's Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • true crime
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
Cover of Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates by Suzanne O'Malley

4. Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates

By: Suzanne O'Malley

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a June morning in a Houston suburb, a 911 dispatcher questioned the caller on the other end of t… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne O'Malley's Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook

5. Murder, She Barked (Paws and Claws Mystery, #1)

By: Krista Davis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Sugar Maple Inn in Wagtail, Virginia, is the country's premiere vacation hot spot for pet owner… read more

Similar categories in Krista Davis's Murder, She Barked (Paws and Claws Mystery, #1) book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

6. The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why

By: Amanda Ripley

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

It lurks in the corner of our imagination, almost beyond our ability to see it: the possibility tha… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Ripley's The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

Cover of Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us by Ruth Kassinger

7. Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

By: Ruth Kassinger

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Kassinger's Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • science
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx

8. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

By: Annie Proulx

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more

Similar categories in Annie Proulx's Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • science
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury

9. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

By: Neil Bradbury

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more

Similar categories in Neil Bradbury's A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • science
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."

-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"

-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

Cover of The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger

10. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

11. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

By: Sam Kean

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more

Similar categories in Sam Kean's The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • science
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."

-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."

-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

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12. All the Living and the Dead

By: Hayley Campbell

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Campbell's All the Living and the Dead book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • audiobook
  • true crime
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."

-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead

Cover of Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer by Harold Schechter

13. Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer

By: Harold Schechter

3.76

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten … read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes

14. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

By: Edward Humes

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more

Similar categories in Edward Humes's The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • audiobook
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • science
Cover of Lies to Tell (D.I. Clare Mackay, #3) by Marion Todd

15. Lies to Tell (D.I. Clare Mackay, #3)

By: Marion Todd

4.26

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Early one morning DI Clare Mackay receives a message from her boss DCI Alastair Gibson telling her … read more

Similar categories in Marion Todd's Lies to Tell (D.I. Clare Mackay, #3) book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black

16. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

By: Sue Black

4.31

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow.… read more

Similar categories in Sue Black's Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • audiobook
  • true crime
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
"Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut"

-Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

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17. Opløst

By: Sara Blaedel

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Unbound

Hvordan er det at vide, at man skal dø og vente på at gå i opløsning? Det er sommer, og alt ånde… read more

Similar categories in Sara Blaedel's Opløst book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them by Peter Wohlleben

18. The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them

By: Peter Wohlleben

4.03

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

From the international bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees An illuminating manifesto on … read more

Similar categories in Peter Wohlleben's The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men by Harold Schechter

19. Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

By: Harold Schechter

3.46

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychop… read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars

20. The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

By: Roman Mars

4.03

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the cr… read more

Similar categories in Roman Mars's The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
"A round of applause for circles."

-Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

"For better or worse, defensive designs limit the range of activities people can engage in. They can also create real problems for the elderly or disabled. Some of the goals of unpleasant designs can …"

-Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

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21. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

By: Ben Rawlence

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing acco… read more

Similar categories in Ben Rawlence's The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • science
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer

22. The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

By: Pico Iyer

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From "one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time" (Brain Pickings): a journey throu… read more

Similar categories in Pico Iyer's The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Walking with Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne

23. Walking with Ghosts

By: Gabriel Byrne

4.11

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

As a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel Byrne sought refuge in a world of ima… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Byrne's Walking with Ghosts book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"So the days passed into weeks and the weeks into months, and gradually she too faded until many years later when I came across a photograph of us together on a hillside in Greece, our only holiday. A…"

-Gabriel Byrne, Walking with Ghosts

Cover of Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle  Dowd

24. Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

By: Michelle Dowd

3.70

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A moving, heartbreaking, and inspiring true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—a… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire by Clare Frank

25. Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire

By: Clare Frank

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Burnt is a captivating and “evocative” (Erin Brockovich) memoir of trailblazing and firefighting fr… read more

Similar categories in Clare Frank's Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain by Pen Vogler

26. Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain

By: Pen Vogler

3.78

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Avocado or beans on toast? Gin or claret? Nut roast or game pie? Milk in first or milk in last? And… read more

Similar categories in Pen Vogler's Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Step Past Darkness by Vera Kurian

27. A Step Past Darkness

By: Vera Kurian

3.55

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

SIX CLASSMATES. ONE TERRIFYING NIGHT. A MURDER TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING… There’s something sin… read more

Similar categories in Vera Kurian's A Step Past Darkness book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women by Jennifer   Wright

28. She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women

By: Jennifer Wright

3.61

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A powerful collection of stories about women who murdered—for revenge, for love, and even for pleas… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Wright's She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa

29. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

Similar categories in Yōko Ogawa's Mina's Matchbox book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

Cover of The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace by Patricia Wiltshire

30. The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

By: Patricia Wiltshire

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative that explores the valuable but often s… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • audiobook
  • true crime
  • memoir
  • natural history
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • nature
  • science
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31. Wenn Insekten über Leichen gehen: Als Entomologe auf der Spur des Verbrechens (German Edition)

By: Marcus Schwarz

4.25

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

Insekten führen ihn zum Täter Aus vielen Krimis und Serien ist das Wenn jemand stirbt, feiert die … read more

Similar categories in Marcus Schwarz's Wenn Insekten über Leichen gehen: Als Entomologe auf der Spur des Verbrechens (German Edition) book and Patricia Wiltshire's The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

  • nonfiction

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Transform Your Habits

The Want-Ad Killer

Ann Rule

3.59

Transform Your Habits

In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption

Hillel Levin , James Keene

4.04

Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales

William M. Bass , Jon Jefferson

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates

Suzanne O'Malley

3.62

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She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Only If You're Lucky

Stacy Willingham

3.56

Transform Your Habits

No One Can Know

Kate Alice Marshall

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Everyone Is Watching

Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

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