All except the maggots

Teasing Secrets from the Dead
by Emily Craig

Dr. Craig writes as well as she detects. She's a bone detective--a forensic anthropologist who started out as a medical illustrator and just never lost her fascination with the bony things that people leave behind. Reading this book makes you want to run out and excavate your compost pile, just to make sure nobody snuck some dismembered body parts in there when you weren't looking.

My only issue with this book is that it should have been three times as long. Even though the last chapter deals with her stints at the World Trade Center, which is almost as depressing as you can imagine.