Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes. Media Coverage, reviews, presentations.

Award nominations

• The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries. 2024 Annual Literature Award Nomination: Annual Literature Award - 2024 Nominees - CBHL

Media reviews. The good, bad, and ugly, links are provided here.

• Booklist: Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes, by By David J. Gibson. | Booklist Online

• Botany One: https://botany.one/2022/08/crime-scene-botanics-the-forensic-side-of-botany

• Defrosting Cold Cases: https://defrostingcoldcases.com/planting-clues-by-david-j-gibson/

• Forbes: Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes By David J. Gibson — Review

• Frost Magazine: https://www.frostmagazine.com/2022/11/would-sherlock-holmes-and-mr-hyde-learn-much-from-planting-clues-ho;w-plants-solve-crimes/

• Gazeta Wyborcza (Polish national newspaper): Po zjedzeniu tej rośliny ofiary wypłacały pieniądze z bankomatu (wyborcza.pl)

• Geographical: https://geographical.co.uk/book-reviews/planting-clues-by-david-j-gibson

• Integrative and Comparative Biology: A review of David Gibson’s Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes – Integrative and Comparative Biology (wordpress.com)

• La Republicca (In Italian, paywalled): https://www.repubblica.it/venerdi/2022/10/21/news/le_piante_che_risolvono_i_crimini-370698051/

• London Review of Books: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n17/liam-shaw/aha

• Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03380-6

• New Scientist (paywalled): https://www.newscientist.com/article/0-planting-clues-review-intriguing-tales-about-plants-role-in-crime/

• Popular Science: https://popsciencebooks.blogspot.com/2022/08/planting-clues-david-gibson.html

• Publishers Weekly: http://www.publishersweekly.com/9780198868606

• Science Fact and Science Fiction Concatenation: http://www.concatenation.org/nfrev/gibson-planting-clues.html

• Sunday Mirror: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-plants-helped-detectives-catch-27498885

• Parlare di libri di Vanessa Ravalli: "Cluedo botanical. How plants solve crimes", David J. Gibson. – Talking about books by Vanessa Ravalli

• The Biologist: Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes (rsb.org.uk)

• The Niche: DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.23629986

• The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/miss-marple-right-gardening-makes-great-detective/

Interviews

• BBC Science Focus’s Instant Genius podcast: https://play.acast.com/s/science-focus-podcast/instant-genius-how-plants-solve-crimes-with-prof-david-gibso

• Book Banter with Diana Burkhardt: https://bookbanter.buzzsprout.com/1923054/12413738-ep-58-david-gibson-phd-frsb-author-interview?t=0

• DaniDaleyAuthor blog: An Interview with David Gibson PhD FRSB – DaniDaleyAuthor (wordpress.com)

• Missing Magnolias podcast: Episodes (missingmagnolias.com)

• Why: Podmasters UK: https://t.co/jeI66WsxoE

• WICN 90.5 Public Radio: https://www.wicn.org/podcast/david-j-gibson/

Blog articles and Magazine articles

• Book Banter Magazine (see p.29): https://www.burckhardtbooks.com/book-banter-magazine

• Environmental DNA: the future of forensic testing? OUPBlog

• Five books to celebrate British Science Week 2023. OUPBlog

Presentations

• Duquesne University Biodiversity Class. (Start at 13.19) https://tinyurl.com/2dw8md4v

• Forensic Botany as a Career. Invited presentation at Cortova Plant Sciences Symposium 2022, Purdue University. Link to slides.

• Hudson Library and Historical Society Author Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyRrdRKRzqI

• Missouri Botanical Garden Member Speaker Series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGnn9vIhvr0

• Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.25598151.v1

• Sierra Club Southern Illinois Chapter. https://figshare.com/s/aba5f2be0385e8247684

• Southern Illinois Learning In Retirement: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.23971866.v1

• The Green Center, Saint Louis: https://figshare.com/s/a5a924b3422bfda150a6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28498586.
  

Juice of Cursed Hebenon

• Listed in Your Author Hub Magazine Vol 5, p. 45. Download the magazine at: https://yourauthorhub.com

"Planting Clues gives a much-appreciated – invaluable, and probably long-overdue – insight into forensic botany." - Nigel Chaffey, Popular Science

"A new book from David J. Gibson has some great tales about how plants help solve crimes – and are used to commit them" - Kate Douglas, New Scientist