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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Unable to express himself socially but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior.
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...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xii, 286 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Forensic Files Now, author Rebecca Reisner shares her own gripping retellings of 40 favorite cases profiled on the hit TV show along with fascinating updates adapted from her popular blog, ForensicFilesNow.com, and a foreword by Forensic Files creator Paul Dowling"--
6) 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.
7) 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...
8) 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
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to forensic science procedures including the examination of fingerprints, DNA, gunpowder, fibers, and handwriting found at a crime scene.
11) 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.
13) The bone bed
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Receiving a grisly communication in the wake of an eminent Canadian paleontologist's disappearance, Kay Scarpetta investigates the discovery of a body in Boston Harbor and clues about other unsolved cases, a situation that makes Scarpetta wonder who she can trust.
14) Silent scream
Author
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...
15) A dying fall
Author
Series
A Ruth Galloway mystery volume 5
Language
English
Description
An old friend's death sends Ruth to Lancaster to investigate an important archaeological discovery, but what she finds is a mystery that may have gotten her friend murdered.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Two fiery deaths have young lawyer Daniel Pitt and his scientist friend Miriam fford Croft racing to solve a forensic crisis in an explosive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Triple Jeopardy. When a desperate woman comes to Daniel seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man's innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and setting a fire to conceal the body, but Daniel is sure that science...