Rigor mortis

Doctor Narcís Bardalet is known as the "confidant of death" or "the man who talks to the dead". Among the thousands of cases in his career as a forensic scientist, he has performed the retrospective autopsy of Jesus Christ, embalmed Salvador Dalí and buried him three times, and had an alleged Egyptian mummy on the autopsy table. His fame has taken off so much that there are those who demand in his last wishes that, if he is killed or dies in an accident, Bardalet be the one to do the autopsy. In addition to being a forensic scientist, he is a paediatrician, passionate about these two medical disciplines which, surprisingly, for him are very similar as they require a great capacity for observation: children, like the deceased, do not speak but give a lot of information if you know how to understand them. From the hand of the journalist Tura Soler, great specialist in the chronicle of events with whom he has shared many cases and police investigations that have occupied the front pages of the newspapers, Narcís Bardalet recalls a fascinating personal and professional history, sometimes tender and others shuddering Because of his extraordinary work, there are those who have affectionately dubbed him the Catalan "Grissom", because his life and the thousand and one striking stories in which he has been the protagonist seem like something out of a movie, even though they are very real With Rigor mortis, which reads like a novel, we will discover with the voice of Dr. Narcís Bardalet the most human face of death and many life lessons.