Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

The History of Death

Michael Kerrigan

Jumped, Fell, or Pushed: How Forensics Solved 50 "Perfect" Murders

Stephen A. Koehler

Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices

Noah Whiteman

Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

Erika Engelhaupt

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Kate Summerscale

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

Emma Southon

The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock

Lucy Worsley

Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

Lydia Kang

Anatomy: A Love Story

Dana Schwartz

What Moves the Dead

T. Kingfisher

Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World

John Blair

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

Greg Melville

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

Neil Bradbury

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty