Feature Articles & Reviews

BOOK OF THE MONTH
BDA News (British Dental Association) (June 2006) 
Biters Beware! Head of library services Roger Farbey reviews a gripping read for anyone interested in true crime stories.
This is a fascinating book and, while an indispensable primer for anyone contemplating forensics as a career, it is also just a good and gripping read for anyone interested in true crime stories and their detection by a truly ingenious dentist.

British Dental Journal (June 2006) 
This book is an interesting mix of case histories that help to map the progression of forensic dentistry into the realms of tool mark work - with a splash of humour from the author to lighten those darker moments.

It is a most interesting read and is suitable for all those interested or involved in the forensic world - a mixture of scientific technique, forensic dental history, personal achievement and reflection. Although over three hundred pages it is definitely something to get your teeth into.

The Law Society Gazette - Murder Most Foul & Teething Troubles (June 2006) 
It is difficult to imagine someone who invents a bizarre patron saint of odontology, which features as an occasional character in a book rooted in academic fact ... and it is this connection she makes with the reader that makes Bite to Byte the unexpected pleasure to read that it is.

Waterstones - Picadilly
A fascinating look at forensic science with wry observations and gallows humour. Persephone Lewin is not your average true crime writer. If you are trying to find something a bit different, look no further.

Women's Weekly Magazine - Living in a Real Life Detective Novel (21st February 2006)
As the only husband-and-wife forensic team in the UK, their work involves matching injuries - often bite marks - to victims, and tracing them back to the causative weapon.

Publishing News - Written on the Body (10th February 2006)
The police often ring David up and ask him to come and examine marks on skin or at a crime scene, as he can often say what might have made them.

Tangled Web UK Review (January 2006)
But it is a book with a difference. She imparts a good deal of interesting information  . . . and is leavened with humour. It is curiously striking, a book with much more personality than many others in its category.

Dental Practice - feature (September 2006)
Survive in court : reflections of an expert witness. Dr David Lewin talks to consultant editor Christopher Hogg.

Persephone Lewin enters the kind of world featured in dramas like Silent Witness. Stephen Russell learns about this branch of Forensic Science. Being married to a forensic odontologist means having to store a human head in your freezer.

Epping Forest Guardian - Dentist Moves from Molars to Murders (9th March 2006)
A new book takes a look behind the scenes ... explores the development of forensic dentistry through several of the cases in which his evidence has been pivotal, from MP Alan Clark's dog biting a BBC cameraman ... to Victoria Climbie, the young girl killed by her aunt and aunt's boyfriend.

Scottish Dentist (March/April 2006)
David's advances in forensic odontology have featured on Channel 5's Post Mortem and BBC 1's Crimewatch. He also had a commission from Rough Justice in a case about a vet who was alleged to have murdered his wife.

Events

13 March 2007
Essex Book Festival. Illustrated talk at Clacton Library.

21 April 2006
Presentation by the author to Adobe at their Cannes convention on the use of digital imaging using Photoshop as an aid the cause of justice.

5 - 7 March 2006
Bite to Byte exhibited on the Gazelle Book Service stand at the London Book Fair, ExCeL London.

23 February 2006
Launch of Bite to Byte at
Hammicks Legal Bookshop,
191-192 Fleet Street,
London EC4 2NJ
Tel: 020 7405 5711
Author talk and signing at 6:00pm.