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In a remote county of North Carolina, thirty-year-old Kathryn Guilford receives the news that her long-time friend and one-time suitor is dead. The authorities declare the death as a suicide, but Kathryn is not convinced. In desperation she turns to Dr. Nick Polchak, the Bug Man, to help her learn the truth-and she is introduced to a mysterious world of blood-seeking flies and flesh-eating beetles. But there's... (more)

Temperance Brennan Novels: Book 12

206 Bones

by Kathy Reichs

Kathy Reichs, number one New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones , returns with a spectacular new novel featuring America's favorite forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan. There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can read in them stories of brief or long lives, and use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end. The... (more)

Death's Acre : Inside the Legendary 'Body Farm

Death's Acre : Inside the Legendary 'Body Farm

by Jon Jefferson, Bill Bass

On a wooded hillside in Tennessee blowflies, bacteria and buzzards feast on human flesh, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. They're buried in shallow graves; submerged in tanks of water; concealed under slabs of concrete; locked in the boots and backseats of rusting cars. They are serving the needs of science in the cause of justice. In DEATH'S ACRE Dr Bill Bass, the facility's founder and one of the world's... (more)

by Tess Gerritsen

Wealthy private patients are getting organ transplants -- but where are the organs coming from?

Dexter: Book 2

Dearly Devoted Dexter

by Jeff Lindsay

Life’s tough for Dexter Morgan. It’s not easy being the world’s only serial killer with a conscience, especially when you work for the Miami police. To avoid suspicion, Dexter’s had to slip deep into his disguise: spending time with his girlfriend and her kids, slowly becoming the world’s first serial killing couch potato. Then a particularly nasty psychopath starts cutting a trail through Miami — a killer... (more)

Temperance Brennan Novels: Book 2

Death du Jour

by Kathy Reichs

Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs exploded onto bestseller lists worldwide with her phenomenal debut novel Déjà Dead -- and introduced "<a> brilliant heroine" (Glamour) in league with Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta. Dr. Temperance Brennan, Quebec's director of forensic anthropology, now returns in a thrilling new investigation into the secrets of the dead. In the bitter cold of a Montreal... (more)

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Shoofly Pie

by Tim Downs

206 Bones

by Kathy Reichs

Death's Acre : Inside the Legendary 'Body Farm

by Jon Jefferson, Bill Bass

by Tess Gerritsen

Dearly Devoted Dexter

by Jeff Lindsay

Death du Jour

by Kathy Reichs