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Dr. David Hunter is a former forensic specialist who left London after the death of his wife and daughter, and settled in rural Norfolk, where is now has a practice as a general practitioner. He tries to not get involved when the body of a woman is found in the woods. When a second woman is found, however, a woman he knows, he lends his expertise to the investigation.
The Chemistry of Death
Beckett, Simon
New York: Delacorte Press, 2006.
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Kay Scarpetta's tenure as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to an end, and she's now a forensic consultant. While working on a case in Louisiana, she's contacted by the evil Jean Baptiste Chandonne, who had relentlessly pursued Scarpetta in a previous book, The Last Precinct. Thought to be safely ensconced on death row, Chardonne escapes from prison and resumes his pursuit of Scarpetta. Then it appears that there's a connection between the Wolfman and the Louisiana case.
Blow Fly
Cornwell, Patricia
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
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When surgeon Kim Reggis's daughter falls ill with e coli poisoning after a meal in a fast food restaurant, Riggis is driven frantic by the poor care she receives, which leads to her death. His investigation into the practices of the beef industry and its relationship with the U.S. Department of Agriculture lead to threats against his own life.
Toxin
Cook, Robin
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1998.
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Dr. Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist who has traveled to Guatemala to identify bodies from a 20-year-old mass grave. While there, she is asked to assist in a current case, with bodies found in a septic tank. This is the fifth book in the Temperance Brennan series. In 1997, Reichs won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel for Deja Dead. Like her character Tempe Brennan, Reichs is also a forensic anthropologist.
Grave Secrets
Reichs, Kathy
New York: Scribners, 2002.
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Naomi and Greg Boardman have created a non-profit rehabilitation center well-loved by patients and staff. The center's future is in peril, however. One of the center's owner's, David McIvey, wants to shut it down and replace it with a for-profit surgery center with himself as star surgeon. Not surprisingly, Dr. McIvey winds up dead. The center hires attorney Barbara Holloway to defend the staff members accused of his murder.
Clear and Convincing Proof
Wilhelm, Kate
Ontario, Canada: Mira, 2003.
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An abridged reading by Joan Allen on four audiocassettes. Kay Scarpetta, State of Virginia medical examiner, is working on a series of deaths that occurred as part of arson. Her old nemisis, Carrie Grethren, seems to be calling the shots.
Point of Origin
Cornwell, Patricia
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Massachusetts District Attorney Monique Lamont wants to run for Governor, and in order to build her image in the public eye, she wants her best state crime investigator to crack a 20-year-old unsolved murder. The investigator, Winston Garano, has been trained at the National Forensic Academy, and the DA thinks modern DNA technology will provide the evidence needed. When the DA is attacked in her home, she and Winston find a connection between the attack and the cold case.
At Risk
Cornwell, Patricia
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2006.
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Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition. Third book in the Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series. In The Sinner, one nun is found brutally murdered in a convent chapel, another critically injured nun beside her. Homicide detective Rizzoli and medical examiner Isles work together to track down the killer.
The Sinner
Gerritsen, Tess
New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.
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Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition. Otherwise seemingly healthy post-op patients are dying at an alarming rate. Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery sees a pattern in their deaths, and fears that a killer is preying on these patients. As the death toll mounts, Montgomery herself becomes a target.
Marker
Cook, Robin
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2005.
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Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition. While publicly denouncing the use of stem cells, Senator Ashley Butler asks a biotech company to use the technology to cure him of Parkinson's disease.
Seizure
Cook, Robin
New York: Doubleday, 2003.
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Large Print Edition. Eighteenth in the Capital Crimes series. Ex-CIA agent Max Pauling, turned flying instructor in Albuquerque, also takes on freelance flying jobs. On this job, he's purportedly just taking medical supplies to Cuba, but his real mission is to investigate the sale of Cuban cancer research to an American pharmaceutical company. When the head of that company is found murdered, Max becomes the prime suspect.
Murder in Havana
Truman, Margaret
New York: Bookspan Large Print Condition, 2001.
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Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta are investigating a series of murders in Florida. What's more disturbing, as there seems to be a connection to a serial killer currently in prison in Massachusetts.
Predator
Cornwell, Patricia
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2005.
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Kerry McGrath is sitting in a plastic surgeon's waiting room with her daughter, who was injured in a car accident. Another woman in the room looks familiar, but Kerry can't place her. A week later, in the same place, Krry sees the same face--but on a different woman. She realizes the reason the face is familiar is because it had been plastered all over the media when its owner was murdered a decade before. Why would a plastic surgeon keep putting the same face on different patients? And what is the connection to the murder?
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Clark, Mary Higgins
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
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Dr. Lenor Tavera is not only a well-respected physician, she's also a curandera, a healer. When she returns to her native New Mexico for her grandmother's funeral, she learns that her grandmother's death is considered to have been of natural causes. Lenor disagrees--she thinks her grandmother was poisoned. Lenor begins an investigation of her own.
The Tavera Legacy
Lynn, Mary Elizabeth
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 1994.
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A seeming madman is attacking women who work at UCLA Medical Center. The suspect is caught and injured in the process. He's brought to the emergency room at UCLA -- where the staff refuse to treat him. Chief of Emergency Services David Spier must deal with personal and professional ethics in determining how to deal with the situation.
Do No Harm
Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew
New York: William Morrow, 2002.
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Colorado veterinarian Frannie O'Neill joins forces with FBI agent Kit Harrison to stop a lab of scientists performing DNA grafting experiments on children. James Patterson has been awarded the International Thriller Writers' ThrillerMaster for outstanding contribution to the genre.
When the Wind Blows
Patterson, James
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998.
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A Crime Club Book. Anna Clarke is a prolific author of suspense novels. Professor Paula Glenning becomes concerned when a fellow clinic patient seems to be heavily sedated, then is moved to another location. Then Paula's life is threatened.
The Case of the Paranoid Patient
Clarke, Anna
New York: Doubleday, 1991.
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A topic as relevant today as when this novel was written, The Select portrays the evils that can accompany good intensions gone very wrong. The U.S. health care system has undergone drastic change. Two medical students discover that there's more at stake than the health of their patients: their fellow med school students are being brainwashed to further the aims of a pharmaceutical company.
The Select
Wilson, F. Paul
New York: William Morrow, 1994.
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A Christmas Eve blizzard adds suspense to this tale of deadly viruses and the theft of the only drug known to combat it from the Scottish research lab where it was stored. The lab's security director, former police officer Toni Gallo, is in a race to recover the drug before disaster strikes.
Whiteout
Follett, Ken
New York: E. P. Dutton, 2004.
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Daniel Ames has it all--a great job with a great law firm and he's earning more money than he ever thought possible. One of the firm's clients, a pharmaceutical company, is sued for marketing a drug that causes birth defects. When evidence is found that the claim may be true, Daniel finds himself in a web of lies and murder.
The Associate
Margolin, Phillip
New York: Harper Collins, 2001.
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