Dr Richard Shepherd

Dr Richard Shepherd is one of Britain's most distinguished forensic pathologists, having performed over 23,000 post-mortems during a career spanning four decades. He gave evidence at some of the most high-profile cases in British legal history, including the Hungerford massacre, the Princess Diana inquest, and the 9/11 investigations. The Seven Ages of Death uses the structure of Shakespeare's seven ages of man to explore how we die at each stage of life, drawing on decades of casework. His earlier memoir Unnatural Causes was a Sunday Times bestseller that revealed the reality of life as a forensic pathologist — the science, the emotional toll, and the extraordinary stories the dead can tell. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers fascinating, compassionate forensic science from a pathologist who spent his career speaking for the dead.