Profile Books is the publishing partner for Wellcome Collection, the free destination for the incurably curious. Books on the list include Val McDermid’s Forensics: An Anatomy of Crime, a non-fiction look at how science helps to solve crimes, from the earliest days of forensics science to the cutting-edge technology used in courts today. Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal takes a humane look at the end of life and advocates not just a good death, but the best possible forms of living until that end arrives.