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O'Malley Family: Book 4
The Truth Seeker
by Dee Henderson
Women are turning up dead. And Lisa O'Malley digging into a crime means trouble is soon to follow. She's a forensic pathologist and mysteries are her domain. Book number three in the O'Malley series brings back Lisa O'Malley and U.S. Marshal Quinn Diamond from The Guardian in a tense investigative thriller. She's not a believer, and her journey toward faith is a fascinating look at how a forensic pathologist views... (more)
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Malicious Intent
by Kathryn Fox
A gripping and powerful new thriller -- the debut of a stunning new voice in suspense fiction -- and the first appearance of a tough and remarkable investigator, pathologist, and forensic physician, Dr. Anya Crichton. The only female freelancer in the male-dominated field, pathologist Dr. Anya Crichton will take any work she can find to pay child support and her mortgage, get her new business off the ground,... (more)
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Anya Crichton Forensic Pathologist: Book 2
Without Consent
by Kathryn Fox
Forensic pathologist and physician, Dr. Anya Crichton does not just examine the dead. She also treats survivors of sexual assault, and the women she now sees compel her to follow the trail of a violent serial rapist—who is becoming more brutal with each attack. When two new victims are stabbed to death, suspicion immediately falls on Geoffrey Willard, recently released from twenty years in prison for the vicious... (more)
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Anya Crichton Forensic Pathologist: Book 4
Bloodborn
by Kathryn Fox
Two sisters were attacked in their own home. Only one of them survived. And now she must revisit hell if justice is to be served. Forensic pathologist Dr. Anya Crichton is incensed over the brutal crime, and she will do everything in her power to see that the three men responsible are punished severely. But the suspects, the Harbourn brothers, are part of a fanatically devoted family of criminals who are... (more)
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Just Killing Time
by Derek Van Arman
Jack Scott, head of a federal agency that tracks serial killers, races against time to save the lives of a beautiful widow and her young son as he matches wits with a human monster with a twisted taste for murder. Reprint.
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The Killing Room
by Peter May
Peter May’s thrilling new China novel brings together Beijing detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell for the third time. When the mutilated and dismembered bodies of eighteen women are discovered in a mass grave in Shanghai, Li is sent to establish if the corpses are related to an unsolved murder in Beijing, and he finds the most horrifying catalog of killings ever uncovered in the Middle... (more)
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Temperance Brennan Novels: Book 9
Break No Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Following the tremendous success of Cross Bones, Kathy Reichs explores another high-profile topic in Break No Bones -- a case that lands forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan in the middle of a gruesome international scheme. Summoned to South Carolina to fill in for a negligent colleague, Tempe is stuck teaching a lackluster archaeology field school in the ruins of a Native American burial ground on the... (more)
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Kay Scarpetta: Book 15
Book of the Dead
by Patricia Cornwell
From America's # 1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel. The "book of the dead" is the morgue log, a ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to take on a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace, not only personally and professionally but... (more)
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Joanna Blalock: Book 3
Deadly Care
by Leonard S. Goldberg
On her third case, forensic pathologist Joanna Blalock struggles to identify a man whose face and fingerprints have been destroyed, the latest victim of a serial killer stalking Memorial Hospital. Reprint. AB. K. LJ.
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The China Thrillers: Book 1
The Firemaker
by Peter May
Margaret Campbell, a Chicago forensic pathologist, has been invited by the Chinese government to teach at the Beijing police university. She has accepted the six-week assignment with misgivings but is desperate to escape a troubled life in America. Arriving in Beijing, she checks "nothing to declare" on the health declaration they gave her on the plane---nothing, that is, "except a broken heart and a wasted life,... (more)
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Eisenmenger-Flemming Forensic Mysteries: Book 2
The Silent Sleep of the Dying
by Keith McCarthy
Mark Hartmann, a consultant pathologist, has problems. Married to a barrister, he ought to be living a comfortable life but his excessive gambling is starting to threaten his marriage. Then he has to perform an autopsy on Millicent Sweet, a 22-year-old laboratory assistant who has died of cancer. His findings are odd, for though so young she appears to have suffered from several different, aggressive cancers. But... (more)
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Rizzoli & Isles: Book 4
Body Double
by Tess Gerritsen
Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles literally meets her match–and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations–in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner. Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan city, she has seen more than her share of corpses every day–many of... (more)
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Temperance Brennan Novels: Book 4
Fatal Voyage
by Kathy Reichs
The fourth bestselling Temperance Brennan thriller from expert forensic anthropologist and internationally bestselling author, Kathy Reichs
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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 "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 winter, Tempe... (more)
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Temperance Brennan Novels: Book 5
Grave Secrets
by Kathy Reichs
THE SENSATIONAL NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 bestselling author Kathy Reichs takes her acclaimed heroine, forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, on a harrowing excavation where she unearths a chilling history -- and puts her own future on the line in a desperate investigation. GRAVE SECRETS They are "the disappeared," twenty-three massacre victims buried in a well in the Guatemalan village of... (more)
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Temperance Brennan Novels: Book 3
Deadly Decisions
by Kathy Reichs
Nine-year-old Emily Anne Toussaint is fatally shot on a Montreal street. A North Carolina teenager disappears from her home. Soon after this parts of her skeleton are found hundreds of miles away. The shocking deaths propel forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan from north to south, and deep into a shattering investigation inside the bizarre culture of outlaw motorcycle gangs -- where one misstep could bring... (more)
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Temperance Brennan Novels: Book 7
Monday Mourning
by Kathy Reichs
Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for both North Carolina and Quebec, has come from Charlotte to Montreal during the bleak days of December to testify as an expert witness at a murder trial. She should be going over her notes, but instead she's digging in the basement of a pizza parlor. Not fun. Freezing cold. Crawling rats. And now, the skeletonized remains of three young women. How did they get there?... (more)
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Temperance Brennan Novels: Book 1
Déjà Dead
by Kathy Reichs
Kathy Reichs blasts into Patricia Cornwell territory -- and onto the New York Times bestseller list -- with this critically acclaimed debut novel inspired by Reichs' own career. Dr. Temperance Brennan, the wry, impassioned director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec, is driven to unravel shocking acts of violence by reading the bones of the dead. In the year since Tempe left behind a shaky... (more)