Forensic Fiction

Skeleton Justice by Michael Baden WANT MORE FORENSICS? The New York crime-fighting team of medical examiner Jake Rosen and attorney Philomena Try these popular television series, available here "Manny" Manfreda take on the bizarre case of a or through interlibrary loan! Forensic stalker and thief who sedates his victims and then NCIS: A team of special agents, operating outside steals vials of their blood. the military chain of command, must investigate Truth Catcher by Anna Salter any crime with pieces of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of Forensic psychologist Breeze Copens has a gift. Fiction rank or position. She not only hears the truth, she also sees it. In Bones: An FBI agent teams up with a forensic an- this gripping story, her attempt to prevent the thropologist to solve some of the most baffling imminent release of a dangerous prisoner is com- and bizarre crimes. plicated by a distress call from an old friend. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: A team of forensic investigators are on the case 24/7, scouring the Untraceable by Laura Griffin scene, collecting the irrefutable evidence, and When one of her clients vanishes for real, PI Alex- finding the missing pieces that will solve the mys- andra Lovell, who specializes in helping people tery. disappear and begin new lives in safety, turns to Dexter: Based on the popular books by Jeffry the Tracers, an elite team of forensic scientists, Lindsay. Orphaned as a child and adopted by a and a sexy detective for help. police officer, Dexter has an insatiable passion for killing. So his father helps him channel this pas- Written in Bone by Simon Beckett sion into becoming a cop and killing those who When a retired detective stumbles upon the body slip through the cracks of justice. of a young woman, incinerated along with her Rizzoli & Isles: Based on Tess Gerritsen’s long- Go beneath the island cottage, forensic anthropologist Dr. David running series. A Boston medical examiner and Hunter uncovers evidence of murder, along with police officer investigate crime on the streets of Boston. surface with these long-hidden secrets of the isolated island commu- nity. stories of science Book annotations courtesy of NoveList, an online tool to help you find and suspense! your next good novel! Find it on our website: Click “Research”, then “Online Research”, then “NoveList” Tewksbury Public Library 300 Chandler Street, Tewksbury, MA 01876 978-640-4490 www.tewksburypl.org The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen The Dirty Secrets Club by Meg Gardiner Good Blood by Aaron Elkins The discovery of the skeleton of a woman mur- In the wake of an ongoing string of high-profile While vacationing on an idyllic Italian island, dered two centuries earlier sends medical exam- murder-suicides in San Francisco, forensic psychi- forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver and his iner Maura Isles on the trail of a long-dead serial atrist Jo Beckett is hired by the SFPD to perform wife find themselves caught up in a case of killer who terrorized Boston with crimes in investigative autopsies and discovers a harrowing kidnapping and murder when the local padro- which Norris Marshall, a Harvard Medical School commonality among the suicide victims. ne's only child is abducted, and Gideon joins student, had become the prime suspect. the investigation. Delusion by G. H. Ephron The Bone Thief by Jefferson Bass Forensic neuropsychologist and expert defense The Iron Wyrm Affair by Lilith Saintcrow Dr. Bill Brockton has been called in on a seem- witness Peter Zak is hired to explore the mind of a In an alternate London where illogical magic has ingly routine case, to exhume a body and obtain brilliant but paranoid man accused of stabbing his turned the Industrial Revolution on its head, a a bone sample for a DNA paternity test. But wife and must separate fact from fiction, reality forensic sorceress and a failed mentath face hostil- when the coffin is opened, Brockton and his col- from delusion, in this complex case. ity, treason, cannon fire, black sorcery, and the problem of reliably finding cabs. leagues, including his graduate assistant Miran- Down the Darkest Road by Tami Hoag da Lovelady, are stunned to see that the corpse Lake of Sorrows by Erin Hart Set in the 1980s, California FBI agent Vince Leone has been horribly violated Pathologist Nora Gavin investigates two bod- taps into the powers of science-based forensic ies discovered at the site of an Irish midland Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell techniques to unveil dark secrets and stop a killer industrial site--one ancient, the other recent-- Dr. Kay Scarpetta opens a private forensic pa- who is terrorizing the citizens of Oak Knoll. and teams up with archaeologist Cormac thology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, The Face of Deception by Iris Johansen Maguire for an unexpectedly dangerous case. only to find herself and her colleagues-- Pete Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is persuaded by bil- Marino and her niece, Lucy-- confronted by a Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber lionaire magnate John Logan to reconstruct horrifying series of crimes that may have an un- New York-based fingerprint expert Lena in- the face of an adult murder victim. It turns out to derlying link. Part of the long-running Kay Scar- vestigates a series of crib deaths that may be a very dangerous job yet as she is left in a spe- petta series. actually be the work of a serial killer, a case cially equipped lab in rural Virginia. Surveillance that reminds Lena of the mystery surrounding Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeffry Lindsay cameras are everywyhere, the phones are tapped her own childhood, marked by her orphaned Hiding a secret life as an assassin while working and Logan himself acts at once--ruthless, charm- status and her intuitive talents. as a murder analyst for the Miami po- ing and desperate. lice, Dexter Morgan is intrigued by the work of a The Girl Who Disappeared Twice by Andrea Kane new serial killer whose style mimics his own. When they are hired by veteran family court First in a series that continues in Dearly Devoted judge Hope Willis to find her missing daughter, Dexter. Forensic Instincts--a team of renegade investigators comprised of a behaviorist, a techno-wizard, an intuitive, and a former Navy SEAL--must race against time to bring Krissy back alive. .

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