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Author
Series
South Shores novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
Using skills gleaned from a lifetime fighting a neurological disorder to become a highly intuitive forensic psychologist, Claire Britten is recruited onto a team of elite investigators by a former adversary trying to solve a mysterious death connected to his personal life.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is once again thrown into a deadly game of intrigue when she receives a cryptic package containing a skull and a two-sided mirror. Eve is determined to reconstruct the skull and uncover the mystery of the person's identity, and when she does, the face of a beautiful woman begins to emerge. But who is this?
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Blood, Bullets, and Bones provides young readers with a fresh and fascinating look at the ever-evolving science of forensics. Since the introduction of DNA testing, forensic science has been in the forefront of the public's imagination, thanks especially to popular television shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. But forensic analysis has been practiced for thousands of years. Ancient Chinese detectives studied dead bodies for signs of foul...
8) Scarpetta
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind her Charleston forensic pathology practice to accept an assignment in New York City, Kay Scarpetta learns the story of an injured psychiatric patient who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time.
9) Dust
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The new Kay Scarpetta novel . . . . After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too...
10) Shutter
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases--she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won't...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates information about the field of crime scene investigation from the education required to the various jobs such as forensic artist, dentist, engineer, pathologist, fingerprint analyst and ballistics specialist among others.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
320 p.
Language
English
Description
Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the "American Sherlock Holmes," Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of America's greatest--and first--forensic scientists, with an uncanny knack for finding clues, establishing evidence, and deducing answers with...
16) 206 bones
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan regains consciousness to discover herself bound and trapped in a small enclosed space before remembering an autopsy case that resulted in a murder and an attempt on her life.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kay Scarpetta becomes embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom her niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past. In the seventeenth installment of the Kay Scarpetta series, the police are stumped by a particularly baffling crime. After exhausting all leads, authorities implore the help of Scarpetta, now a CNN senior forensic analyst....
19) Flash and bones
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A latest entry in the series by the producer of the "Bones" television show finds forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan investigating a possible FBI cover-up with ties to the disappearance of a NASCAR crew member's sister, a right-wing extremist group, and a secret substance.
20) Silent scream
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A violent past leads to a present danger... When an old college roommate invites Claire Britten to join her on an archaeological dig at a Florida peat bog, it's an offer the renowned forensic psychologist can't refuse. Claire's husband, criminal lawyer Nick Markwood, is comforted to see Claire working on a prehistoric burial site instead of an open grave for once. But Claire's investigative instincts kick in when some of The Black Bog's perfectly...