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Abu-Jaber, Diana Origin : a Novel Lena is a fingerprint expert at a crime lab in the small city of Syracuse, New York, comfortable in her minute, predictable world of forensics. During one snowy, frigid winter, Lena's routine is broken by a series of crib deaths. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome? Not by the fevered testimony of one distraught mother who has connections in high places. Soon the deaths draw the attention of the police and the national media and raise the possibility of the inconceivable: that an infant murderer is at work. And then there is the mystery of her own childhood to solve, her unexplainable late-night dreams of walking through the rain forest. Could the improbable deaths of a half-dozen babies be somehow connected to her own improbable survival? 2007 Adult Fiction Book ABU-JAB |
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Andrews, Lori B. Sequence Dr. Alexandra Blake has the job of a lifetime as a cutting-edge geneticist. But the institute's new director wants to turn it into a mini FBI by directing its resources toward crime solving. When a series of related murders falls under his jurisdiction, Alex is forced to put her research on hold so she can cover forensics on the case, which involves a killer who murders women near military bases across the country and then tattoos their corpses. 2006 Adult Mystery Book ANDREWS |
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Anscombe, Roderick Virgin Lies Dr. Paul Lucas, an expert at interrogating violent criminals and the insane, is called in to help evaluate a homeless schizophrenic woman's testimony - she may be the only witness to a nine year old girl's disappearance. As leads he elicits turn out to be misleading, he must decide whether to uphold his oaths, or break them to save the child. 2007 Adult Fiction Book ANSCOMB |
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Arnout, Susan Out at Night Professor Thaddeus Bartholomew is found with a hole in his chest, shot with a crossbow, and burned to death, but was able to send a text message with a name before he was killed. San Diego crime scene tech Grace Descanso’s phone number is in the victims phone, and the FBI gives her an ultimatum – join the investigation or become a suspect in it. 2009 Adult Fiction Book SMITH |
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Baden, Michael M. Remains Silent Dr. Jake Rosen, deputy chief medical examiner for New York City, gets a call from his beloved mentor, who as county medical examiner in his retirement upstate, has just been handed a pile of bones dug up in an excavation for a new mall. They suspect the bones are from a closed psychiatric facility nearby. Lawyer Philomena "Manny" Manfreda is hired by the family of a missing former patient of the facility. Together, Manny and Jake try to identify the bodies and determine why they were dumped in the field behind the institute. But who will resort to murder to keep this a secret?? 2005 Adult Mystery Book BADEN |
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Bass, Jefferson Flesh and Bone : A Body Farm Novel Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton must defend himself against a charge of murder. When the mummified body of a woman is found in a cave in Tennessee, Brockton is stymied. After a second body turns up, Brockton finds himself a suspect. 2007 Adult Mystery Book BASS |
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Beckett, Simon The Chemistry of Death Three years ago, David Hunter moved to rural Norfolk to escape his life in London, his career in forensics, and a heart-breaking tragedy. Working as a country doctor, David tries not become involved when woman's body is found in the woods. The sleepy summer countryside turns malevolent. The village of Manham is tight-knit, and, as a newcomer, Dr. Hunter is immediately a suspect. Once an expert in analyzing human remains, he reluctantly joins the police investigation - and when another woman disappears, it becomes personal. 2006 Adult Fiction Book BECKETT |
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Billingham, Mark Lazybones When Detective Inspector Tom Thorne of the London Metropolitan Police Service find the body of a strangled and sexually violated male in a cheap hotel room, Thorne quickly learns that the victim was a convicted rapist. When a second recently released rapist is also murdered in a similar fashion, it's likely there is a serial killer bent on revenge. 2003 Adult Mystery Book BILLINGHA |
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Black, Lisa Trail of Blood Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean investigates a crime spree from Cleveland's past when the bodies of recent murder victims show up bearing the hallmarks of an uncaught serial killer who had terrorized the city seventy-five years prior. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Burcell, Robin The Bone Chamber Forensic artist Sydney Fitzpatrick is working the case of a murdered young woman when her friend is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Sydney is suddenly taken off her case, and, left to her own devices, begins an investigation that involves a long lost Templar treasure, a secret map, and a ruthless killer. 2009 Adult Mystery Book BURCELL |
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Connor, Beverly Dead Guilty : a Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation Forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon must lead a chilling excavation of a crime with harrowing implications: the murder of three people, hanged execution-style in an isolated patch of Georgia woods. 2004 Adult Mystery Book |
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Cook, Robin Crisis When Dr. Craig Bowman is served with a summons for medical malpractice, Dr. Jack Stapleton, a medical examiner in New York City, agrees to assist with the case. When Jack asks that the body in questions be exhumed, they discover a Pandora's box of trouble. 2006 Adult Fiction Book COOK |
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Cook, Robin Intervention When his newborn son by his second wife is diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma, New York City forensic pathologist Jack Stapleton seeks to find a cure for his son while at the same time being drawn into a battle between the archbishop of New York and an archaeologist -- a battle involving what some people believe to be the skeletal remains of the Virgin Mary. 2009 Adult Fiction Book |
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Cornwell, Patricia Daniels Predator Pathologist Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing in Florida, must find how several grisly crimes are related. Four people disappear with no trace, and a woman is found murdered in her bed. Is a psychopathic prisoner telling the truth, or is he playing games? Scarpetta and her team must find the answers before more die. 2005 Adult Mystery Book CORNWEL |
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Deaver, Jeffery The Twelfth Card: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel African American teen Geneva Settle is attacked in a Manhattan library while researching an ancestor, a former slave. Who wants this intelligent, hardworking Harlem schoolgirl dead? Lincoln Rhymes, Deaver's paraplegic detective, races to find the answers before it's too late. 2005 Adult Mystery Book DEAVER |
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Downs, Tim First the Dead When Hurricane Katrina strikes New Orleans, forensic entomologist Nick Polchak signs up to help with the recovery effort. He is known as the Bug Man for his knowledge of insects and what they can reveal about the dead. The government's mandate is clear--rescue the living first, recover the dead later. But someone is using the cover of disaster to kill.... 2007 Adult Mystery Book DOWNS |
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Elkins, Aaron J. Where There's a Will After a conference in Honolulu, forensic detective Gideon Oliver and his FBI agent friend John Lau travel to the Big Island to stay on the Torkelson's cattle ranch. They soon ask for Oliver's help in identifying bones found in a sunken plane. Could it be their long-missing Uncle Magnus? 2005 Adult Mystery Book ELKINS |
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Franklin, Ariana Grave Goods England, 1176. Beautiful, tranquil Glastonbury Abbey, one of England's holiest sites, and believed by some to be King Arthur's sacred Isle of Avalon, has been burned almost to the ground. The arsonist remains at large, but the fire has uncovered something even more shocking: two hidden skeletons, a man and a woman. King Henry II calls on Adelia Aguilar, Mistress of the Art of Death, to examine the bones. 2009 Adult Fiction Book FRANKLI |
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Gardiner, Meg The Liar's Lullaby When the country singer ex-wife of a U.S. president is sensationally murdered during a concert performance, forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett endeavors to learn the victim's role in her demise as well as the murder's relevance for the president. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Gerritsen, Tess The Sinner Medical Examiner Maura Isles' autopsy of a young murdered nun reveals she gave birth shortly before she was killed. Soon, another murder appears to be connected. Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli must find what this means before it's too late. 2003 Adult Fiction Book GERRITSEN |
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