Blood Evidence: How DNA Is Revolutionizing The Way We Solve Crimes Hardcover – 17 Apr 2003

Whilst the author(s) clearly knows all there is to know about DNA and the science surrounding it, and scenarios in which it has been relevant, this book has little to excite the supposed audience of the 'lay reader'. Engaging in places, the text spends far too long on scientific background and on cases that have little to do with criminal justice (forensic archaeology, cloning, bone identification, parental disputes etc etc.). The book goes into far far too much detail which detracts from the simply message the book seems to want to get across: DNA is impressive and increasingly important. Only the truly dedicated will get to the end (or will 'skip' many pages) and only the truly scientific will understand a lot of the book. A great book if you want to know all there is to know about DNA, if you are only interested in crime and DNA, this is too compendious and requires too much time and effort to read. Also has some minor, but irritating factual errors which risks losing the trust of the reader (i.e. Leicestershire isn't in London!). A work of scholarly import perhaps but of little attraction to a wider audience.