7 Top death books like 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

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18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

By: Bruce Goldfarb

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Gilded Age Chicago heiress who revolutionized forensic death investigation. As the…

If you liked the death plot in 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek, T.J. Mitchell

1. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

By: Judy Melinek , T.J. Mitchell

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's rookie season as a NYC medical examiner, and … read more

Similar categories in Judy Melinek's Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner book and Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • death

2. Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from the Thanatos Archive

By: Bess Lovejoy , None , None , None , None , None , None , None

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem and Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive is a compilati… read more

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3. The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death

By: John Bateson

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Dr. Judy Melinek's Working Stiff, an account of the hair-raising and heartbreaking c… read more

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4. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

By: Erika Engelhaupt

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"

-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

Cover of American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson

5. American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

By: Kate Winkler Dawson

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The riveting true story of the birth of modern criminal investigation. Berkeley, California, 193… read more

Similar categories in Kate Winkler Dawson's American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI book and Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
Cover of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

6. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Hylton's Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum book and Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

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

7. 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 Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
"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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8. All That Remains: A Life in Death

By: Sue Black

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses… read more

Similar categories in Sue Black's All That Remains: A Life in Death book and Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • true crime
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
Cover of 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

9. 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

By: Bruce Goldfarb

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Gilded Age Chicago heiress who revolutionized forensic death investigation. As the… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics book and Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
Cover of The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes

10. 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 Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
Cover of Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton

11. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

By: Laurah Norton

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more

Similar categories in Laurah Norton's Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless book and Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
Cover of Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas

12. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family

By: Susan Jonusas

3.45

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more

Similar categories in Susan Jonusas's Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family book and Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville

13. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

By: Greg Melville

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more

Similar categories in Greg Melville's Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries book and Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

  • history
  • historical
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."

-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

Cover of What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara  Butcher

14. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By: Barbara Butcher

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Butcher's What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator book and Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • true crime
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."

-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

Cover of The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb

15. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By: Dean Jobb

3.62

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of … read more

Similar categories in Dean Jobb's The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer book and Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. Death in the Details

By: Katie Tietjen

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the real life Frances Lee Glessner and featuring a whip-smart, intrepid sleuth in post-… read more

Similar categories in Katie Tietjen's Death in the Details book and Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

  • historical
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Jenny James Is Not a Disaster by Debbie  Johnson

17. Jenny James Is Not a Disaster

By: Debbie Johnson

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Sometimes it takes life falling apart . . . to piece yourself back together. Single mum Jenny is o… read more

Similar categories in Debbie Johnson's Jenny James Is Not a Disaster book and Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

  • audiobook
Cover of Millie Fleur's Poison Garden by Christy Mandin

18. Millie Fleur's Poison Garden

By: Christy Mandin

4.46

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Wednesday Addams meets The Curious Garden in this delightfully peculiar story about finding joy in … read more

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19. The Natural History of Crime

By: Patricia Wiltshire

3.44

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

AS SEEN IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE UK'S NO.1 FORENSIC ECOLOGIST LOOKS AT HER MOST HIGH-PROFILE AND IN… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Wiltshire's The Natural History of Crime book and Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

  • audiobook
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
Cover of Shadow Men: The Tangled Story of Murder, Media, and Privilege That Scandalized Jazz Age America by James Polchin

20. Shadow Men: The Tangled Story of Murder, Media, and Privilege That Scandalized Jazz Age America

By: James Polchin

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From Edgar Award finalist James Polchin comes a thrilling examination of the murder that captivated… read more

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  • history
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It by Adia Harvey Wingfield

21. Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It

By: Adia Harvey Wingfield

3.75

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

NEXT IDEA BOOK CLUB MUST READ • LIBRARY JOURNAL EDITOR PICK • "This vital and accessible study is a… read more

Similar categories in Adia Harvey Wingfield's Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It book and Bruce Goldfarb's 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

16 Best audiobook books like 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

Transform Your Habits

Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

Erika Engelhaupt

4.09

Transform Your Habits

American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

Kate Winkler Dawson

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

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

Sam Kean

4.00

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16 best-selling history books like Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Uché Blackstock

4.46

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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon

4.21

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