Conversations with the Dead: Gripping Cases from a Renowned Forensic Pathologist
About this ebook
“Hello, Doctor? We have a problem.” A woman has been fed to a pig. A daughter shoots her father, who’s already dead. A crime scene bears an eerie resemblance to the plot of Basic Instinct. Or how about a case of spontaneous combustion?
The dead can tell you stories... if you know how to listen. And renowned Belgian forensic pathologist Dr. Philippe Boxho certainly does. In a career spanning longer than three decades, he has been called to examine over 4,000 bodies. Now he shares some of his most memorable, chilling, and often morbidly funny stories.
Dr. Boxho takes us to crime scenes where bodies disappear, murders are covered up, suicides reveal surprises, and the dead aren’t always as dead as we think they are. Exploring a range of fatal circumstance—some brutal, some accidental, and others cruelly mundane—he brings to life the science behind his quests to uncover the truth.
Fascinating, surprising, entertaining, and deeply moving, Conversations with the Dead offers readers a glimpse into the darkest recesses of the human psyche, and exposes the universal threads of life that make us human.
About the author
Dr. Philippe Boxho is a Belgian forensic pathologist, criminology professor, and author who has sold over a million copies of his books and topped nonfiction bestseller lists in France and Belgium. Dr. Boxho's work offers a glimpse into the world of forensic medicine and dispel myths created by television and film. His books have been published in more than 20 languages. Conversations with the Dead is his English-language debut.
