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Staff Nurse Carmichael has been promoted and fallen in love, but the road to love isn't always easy. 180 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2".
Angel of Death
Cohen, Anthea
London: Quartet Crime, 1983.
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For thousands of years, man has searched for the secret of eternal lfe. Dr. David Kennessy thought he had found it--microscopic biomachines that can cure disease. Unfortunately, Dr, Kennessy's invention seems to have become not an agent of life, but an agent of death, destroying his patients from within. Muldur and Scully race to find the truth despite oppostion from from enemies, even within their own agency. Anderson has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, the Nebula Award, and the SFX reader's choice award. In addition to his X Files novels, he has also written numerous books in the Star Wars, Dune, and Saga of Seven Suns series.
Antibodies
Anderson, Kevin J.
New York: Harper Prism, 1997.
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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. 212 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 2/4".
At Risk
Cornwell, Patricia
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2006.
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Shelley Reinish was an accomplished doctor, wife, and mother. When she unexpectedly dies and is quickly passed off as a suicide, her colleague Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe doesn't believe it. When she starts looking at Shelley's life just before her death, she finds disturbing evidence that all was not well. The deeper she probes, the more worried she becomes. And then she realizes that someone is following her, with murderous intent. The author's first novel. 260 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Cover illustration by Marvin Mattelson.
Blood Run: A Medical Suspense Novel
Robinson, Leah Ruth
New York: New American Library, 1988.
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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. 465 pp. 9 1/2" 6 1/2". Jacket design by Walter Harper.
Blow Fly
Cornwell, Patricia
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
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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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181 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". Jacket design by Michael Chesworth.
Cold Coffin
Quest, Erica
New York: Doubleday Crime Club, 1990.
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Signed by the author on the title page. The author's first novel. 325 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/4".
Dangerous Attachments
Lovett, Sarah
New York: Villard Books, 1995.
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Signed by the author on title page. The staff and former residents of now-closed The Hawthorne House School for the Treatment of Autistic Children gather for a reunion. The shocking death of the school's founder, Dr. Jay Schermerhorn, brings Chicago detectives Emily Folkstone and Ollie Park to investigate. They discover hidden characteristics behind Dr. Schermerhorn's professional facade. 350 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8".
Death of a Thousand Cuts
D'Amato, Barbara
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2004.
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When an arm is found sticking out of the newly poured concret sidewalk near the President of Laos's mansion, the National Coroner, Dr. Siri Paiboun is ordered to remove the arm and find out to whom it belongs. With the results of the autopsy and his skills as a shaman, Dr. Paiboun solves the case. 247 pp. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4".
Disco for the Departed
Cotterill, Colin
New York: Soho, 2006.
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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. 388 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Richard L. Aquan.
Do No Harm
Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew
New York: William Morrow, 2002.
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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. 317 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by John Fulbrook III.
Grave Secrets
Reichs, Kathy
New York: Scribners, 2002.
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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? 319 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design and Illustration by Paul Bacon.
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Clark, Mary Higgins
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
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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. 884 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Thomas Tafuri.
Marker
Cook, Robin
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2005.
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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. 575 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Kapo Ng.
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. 406 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Lisa Amorosa.
Predator
Cornwell, Patricia
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2005.
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Author Baden is a former New York City medical examiner, and forensic pathologist for the State of New York. This is his first novel. Attorney "Manny" Manfreda is hired to represent the family of a body found on a construction site. Chief medical examiner Jake Rosen investigates. Together, Manny and Jake work together on the crime, and find themselves drawn to each other in the process. 232 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/4". Jacket design by Carole Devine Carson.
Remains Silent
Baden, Michael and Linda Kenney
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 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. 802 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Thomas Tafuri.
Seizure
Cook, Robin
New York: Doubleday, 2003.
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When Detective Francis X. Loughlin was new on the police force, a young doctor was murdered and Julian Vega, her apartment manager, was convicted and sent to prison. Twenty years later, Vega is released from prison on a technicality. Another doctor is murdered, and fingers point to Vega again. The DNA test is a shocker--the blood under the new victim's fingernails isn't that of Vega, but of the woman murdered twenty years before. Peter Blauner won the 1992 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Slow Motion Riot. 391 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design and photograph by Frances Yasmeen Motiwalla.
Slipping into Darkness
Blauner, Peter
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006.
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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. 292 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cuptich.
The Associate
Margolin, Phillip
New York: Harper Collins, 2001.
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