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Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Black takes us on a guided tour of the human skeleton and explaining how each person's life history is revealed in their bones, which she calls "the last sentinels of our mortal life to bear witness to the way we lived it." Her narrative follows the skeleton from the top of the skull to the small bones in the foot. Each step of the journey includes an explanation of the biology--how the bone is formed in a person's development, how it changes as...
Author
Series
Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
"Sharyn McCrumb is a born storyteller."
Mary Higgins Clark
Sharyn McCrumb's acclaimed sequel to MISSING SUSAN.
Forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson heads to Danville, Virginia, to save her brother Bill—a novice lawyer—from a charge that could send him to prison. It seems that eight women, the daughters of Confederate veterans, had asked Bill to sell their antebellum mansion. But the real estate deal is the cover for...
Mary Higgins Clark
Sharyn McCrumb's acclaimed sequel to MISSING SUSAN.
Forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson heads to Danville, Virginia, to save her brother Bill—a novice lawyer—from a charge that could send him to prison. It seems that eight women, the daughters of Confederate veterans, had asked Bill to sell their antebellum mansion. But the real estate deal is the cover for...
43) A rumor of bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lindsay Chamberlain knew she would be working with bones that summer. A forensic anthropologist, she was a bone expert, and that was why she was invited to participate in the Jasper Creek excavation. She had not expected, however, to find the body of a woman who had been murdered and buried at the site only fifty years ago."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Christine Prusik volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From TikTok sensation Lloyd Devereux Richards comes the next pulse-pounding thriller in which FBI agent Christine Prusik races to track down a serial killer who leaves a peculiar mark on his victims"--
45) Deadly décisions
Author
Series
Publisher
AudioGO
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called to Quebec becasue of a raging and gruesome biker war. Two foot soldiers have blown themselves up, and when a nine-year-old girl is wheeled into the morgue--slain in biker crossfire--Tempe vows to fight this evil and enters the dark underworld of the bikers.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
[New York] : Simon & Schuster ; p2013.
Language
English
Description
When a fly-covered canvas bag floats to the surface of North Carolina's Mountain Island Lake, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is called to the scene. Animal remains? Or could this be related to bone fragments from a human male found nearby? To Tempe's surprise, the decomposed body indicates the person was a female young adult. The profile fits the description of a missing graduate student named Edith Blankenship. Was Blankenship murdered? If...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
423 pages : map, plans ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a seemingly random event, forensic anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain is attacked and left for dead. Buried in a shallow grave in the woods, she manages to escape, although she suffers from amnesia as a result of the ordeal. When Lindsay's memory returns, it is incomplete. She copes with the trauma by ignoring it and she allows the authorities to handle the investigation. As the probe quickly comes to a dead end, however, the assault looms like...
49) Freezing
Author
Series
A Jayne and Steelie novel volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a bundle of unidentified body parts tumbles out the rear door of a van on a Los Angeles freeway, FBI agent Scott Houston knows just where to go for an off-the-record analysis: Agency 32/1, a non-profit missing persons identification resource center run by forensic anthropologists Jayne Hall and Steelie Lander. However, Scott's call has unintended consequences for the two women as he draws them into a coast-to-coast murder investigation, and bends...
50) Stone maidens
Author
Series
Christine Prusik volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A serial killer is strangling young women and dumping their lifeless bodies in the steep forested ravines of southern Indiana. With each corpse he leaves a calling card: a stone figurine wedged deep inside the victim's throat. FBI forensic anthropologist Christine Prusik saw such figurines placed inside the bodies of the dead years ago when researching in Papua New Guinea. Is someone trying to send Christine a message?
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