Planting Clues Media Coverage
My book Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes has attracted several media reviews. The good, bad, and ugly, links are provided here.
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/
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
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
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
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
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
Southern Illinois Learning In Retirement: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.23971866.v1
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
