📚 Forensic Sciences

Evidence-grade science in the courtroom: Locard’s exchange principle, fingerprints, and the DNA cases that rewrote it.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject forensic sciences in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Introduction to forensic anthropology	Steven N. Byers	2001	24
	Criminalistics	Richard Saferstein	1977	19
	Crime scene investigation	Michael Braswell	2007	17
	Cybercrime and Digital Forensics	Thomas J. Holt	2015	15
	Forensic science	Stuart H. James	2002	13
	Forensic science	Jay A. Siegel	2010	13
	Detecting malingering and deception	Harold V. Hall	1995	12
	Essential forensic biology	Alan Gunn	2006	11
	Forensic Biology	Richard Li	2008	11
	Forensic Anthropology	Angi M. Christensen	2013	11
	Basics of Investigating Forensic Science	Kathy Mirakovits	2015	11
	Footwear impression evidence	William J. Bodziak	1990	10
	Forensic anthropology training manual	Karen Ramey Burns	1999	9
	Effective interviewing and interrogation techniques	Nathan J. Gordon	2001	9
	Forensics for Dummies	D. P. Lyle	2011	9
	Forensic Science	Christopher Lawless	2016	9
	Never Suck A Dead Man's Hand	Dana Kollmann	2007	8
	Digital Forensics Explained	Greg Gogolin	2012	8
	Forensic Approaches To Buried Remains	Hunter, John	2013	8
	All That Remains	Sue Black	2018	8
	Forensic Science	Suzanne Bell	2019	8
	Handbook of firearms and ballistics	Brian J. Heard	1997	7
	Criminal Investigation	Michael D. Lyman	2001	7
	Crime Scene to Court	Peter C. White	2007	7
	The poisoner's handbook	Deborah Blum	2010	7
	Forensic Science	Richard Saferstein	2010	7
	Criminal investigation	Michael D. Lyman	2011	7
	Forensic Analytical Techniques	Barbara H. Stuart	2012	7
	Discover Forensic Science	L. E. Carmichael	2016	7
	18 Tiny Deaths	Bruce Goldfarb	2020	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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