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The Quick and the Dead

By: Cynric Temple-Camp
Narrated by: Mark Davis
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True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist

From the number one best-selling author of The Cause of Death comes an audiobook about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end.

A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain; crocodile attacks and bizarre eating disorders....In The Quick and the Dead, pathologist and self-confessed death-aficionado Dr. Cynric Temple-Camp takes listeners into a world of disease and death as he seeks answers for those who were unlucky, and those still alive to tell the tale.

©2020 Cynric Temple-Camp (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Medical Murder Professionals & Academics True Crime Crime
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Dr Temple-Camp is one of my favorite authors in the medical writing category.
I look forward to more.
The reader was excellent.

New favorite

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This is a book about real people, who have faced the ends of their lives in sometimes tragic ways. I loved that the pathologist had enough compassion for their dignity, and curiousity-to make time to get to the bottom of every case.

Really, really interesting stories

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I really enjoy this authors perspective on life. I would love to have a conversation with him. I read his first book and really enjoyed it. This one is a little different but i enjoyed it as well. Well worth listening to.

More stories of a caring pathologist.

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Very interesting and compassionate stories. Enjoyed as much as it's prequel and hope there are more to come.

Great book but very low volume recording

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The author is an excellent story teller. In this book, some of the cases arent his patients. i also enjoy the differences of experiences he sharex from both africa and new zealand.

sort of a case study series

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The narrator mispronounced African words and medical terms. The accent attributed to the author is badly misplaced. I know Cynric and his is NOT an Afrikaans accent!!! All very irritating. He doesn’t even attempt the New Zealand accent. Where did you dredge this clown up from?

Bad narrator.

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