Short interesting memoir from a forensic anthropologist. It's intelligently illustrated, too, with a number of useful drawings and photos. On the whole, though, I was hoping for a little more. Manhein is an excellent story-teller, and that's what's being put across here: stories, a number of them, none more than a few pages long. It ends up being a diverse but disconnected narrative, and one that never delves very deeply into anything. I was expecting true crime, but a lot of the cases highlighted here - presumably some of the most interesting of Manhein's career - involve, for instance, accident or drowning. That in itself isn't bad at all! The variety gives a greater sense of what life as a forensic anthropologist actually entails, and I appreciated the realism. I was, however, also expecting more science. I happen to like science, and there was just not as much here as I was looking for. I would have preferred fewer chapters, going more in-depth, I think.