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These are forensic-heavy mysteries and thrillers. A few are the first title in ongoing series.
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The Crossing Places
Elly Griffiths - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth Galloway lives happily alone in a remote area called Saltmarsh near Norfolk, land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants - not quite earth, not quite sea.When a child's bones are found... |
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Deja Dead
Kathleen J Reichs - Pocket Star Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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See where the smash #1 New York Times bestselling Temperance Brennan "cleverly plotted and expertly maintained" (The New York Times) series all began with Deja Dead, the first installment from forensic anthropologist and internationally bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs.Her... |
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The Surgeon
Tess Gerritsen
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In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again.He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping,... |
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Carved in Bone: A Body Farm Novel (Body Farm Novels)
Jon Jefferson - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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On the campus of the University of Tennessee lies a patch of ground unlike any in the world. The "Body Farm" is a place where human corpses are left to the elements, and every manner of decay is fully explored -- for the sake of science and the cause of justice. The scientist... |
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The Bone Collector: The First Lincoln Rhyme Novel
Jeff Deaver - New American Library
Format: Paperback
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In his most gripping thriller yet, Jeffery Deaver takes readers on a terrifying ride into two ingenious minds...that of a physically challenged detective and the scheming killer he must stop. The detective was the former head of forensics at the NYPD, but is now a quadriplegic who can only... |
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Blindsighted: A Novel
Karin Slaughter
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The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, the town's pediatrician and coroner, finds Sibyl Adams, a young college professor, dead in the local diner. As well as being viciously raped, Sibyl has been cut: two deep knife wounds form a lethal c |
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One Grave Less: A Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation
Beverly Connor - NAL; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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Forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon has tried to put the past behind her, establishing herself as head of the River Trail Museum of Natural History. Late one night at the museum, Diane hears terrified cries and finds an injured man-a former coworker from her time as a human rights activist... |
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Fault Line
Sarah Andrews - St. Martin's Minotaur
Format: Print book
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In Fault Line, Sarah Andrews' seventh absorbing mystery, forensic geologist Emily Hansen finds herself in a heavenly situation-for a geologist, anyway. Here, Salt Lake City, on the verge of hosting the Olympics, is hit with a major earthquake, Em's first; she's delighted to see her science... |
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Haunted Ground: A Novel
Erin Hart - Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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A dazzling debut -- already an international publishing sensation -- combining forensics, history, archaeology, and suspense. Introducing Erin Hart, who brings the beauty, poignancy, mystery, and romance of the Irish countryside to her richly nuanced first novel. When farmers cutting... |
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Old Bones
Douglas Preston - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 NYT bestselling authors Preston & Child bring the true story of the ill-fated Donner Party to new life in this thrilling novel of archaeology, history, murder, and suspense. Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian... |
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When a Heart Stops: A Novel
Lynette Eason - Revell; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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A beautiful young medical examiner joins forces with an FBI agent to stop a serial killer-before she becomes his next victim.,
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1st to Die
James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition
Format: Print book
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Four women-four friends-share a determination to stop a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco. Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant... |
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The Hollow Men: A Novel
Rob Mccarthy - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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Police surgeon Harry Kent is determined to help those the world would rather brush aside, in a smart and electrifying new crime series that evokes the often-hidden medical world of the London Metropolitan Police. Dr. Harry Kent likes to keep himself busy -- juggling hospital duties with... |
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Trace Evidence
Elizabeth Becka - Hyperion
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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A gripping suspense novel that introduces forensic expert Evelyn James as she tries to decipher trace evidence and solve a bizarre crime t's a cold Cleveland November day when forensic trace evidence expert Evelyn James is summoned to the scene of a bizarre crime. A young woman has been... |
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The Alienist
Caleb Carr
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The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly... |
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