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The Cause of Death

By: Cynric Temple-Camp
Narrated by: Mark Davis
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Spontaneous combustion and exhumation, drug mules and devil worshippers, a gruesome killing beneath the Palmerston North Airport control tower, a mysterious death in a historic homestead, a firsthand dissection of the infamous Mark Lundy case...

In The Cause of Death, provincial pathologist Dr. Cynric Temple-Camp lifts the lid on the most unusual stories of death and murder he's encountered during his 30-year career.

©2017 HarperCollins Publishers(New Zealand) Limited (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers(New Zealand) Limited Medical Professionals & Academics True Crime Aviation

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This was such an interesting listen to hear about pathology experiences from a different part of the world (I am UK)

Narration was very good also, perfectly paced.

Very engaging

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What a fascinating insight into the life and work of a pathologist. Strangely, the unflinching straightforwardness helped me to overcome my natural squeamishness too.

Fascinating and Informative

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This was one of the best books I have ever listened to (or read). I felt it was easy for someone with a non-science background to follow but was still enthralling for someone like myself who has a science background. I listened to it in one go it was that good and will listen again.

A definite must!

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This reminded me a lot of Dr. Richard Shephard's "Unnatural Causes" not only by its content but also the writing style that Temple-Camp employs. The descriptions of death and the stories of the people involved are treated very respectfully while still affording riveting insights into the forensic pathologists day-to-day activities. I gave this book 5 stars all round and the narration was great except for the Irish accent of Pat the pathologist's assistant. "Der's moire to Oirland dan dis" - it's weird because the narrator has the British, New Zealand and Kiwi accents down to a T but the Irish accent sounds bizarrely affected.

Very detailed and well written

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Many interesting stories, compassionately told. But the reader was not up to scratch. His accents were terrible and very annoying and his mispronunciation of names laughable. Regarding accents, the author is from an English Rhodesian/Zimbabwean background, but the accent that the reader uses to voice his speech is a thick South African Afrikaans speaker’s accent. And the reader’s silly Northern Irish accent always has the same questioning lilt at the end. The reader also made a hash of pronunciations of names, like Groote Schuur, kaya, and Du Plessis. When he was not doing this he read almost robotically.

Fascinating stories and an engaging book but annoying reader

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Really enjoyable and engaging story, the chosen cases gave great insight into his job and its impact and importance of true science. My only very slight bug bear was the Hollywood type terrible Irish accent given to one of his assistants.

Very enjoyable

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Captivating from the start, really well written and read. Highly recommended and left wanting more.

Captivating

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great detail in his experiences and very very interesting. Extremely interesting subject and very well narrated

Detail

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Loved this done in a way that I can understand the science but also teach me new things and a good insite into his and others world

Fascinating

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After such glowing reviews I was really excited to listen to this. But it wasn’t for me, a boring account of one mans job.

Not what I was expecting

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