Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.