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Mystery

Forensic Mystery/Fiction

FICTION/ABU-JABER
Abu-Jaber, Diana - Origin - 2007, 384p.
Lena Dawson is a fingerprint expert in Syracuse, New York. She suddenly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of SIDS deaths, which seem to be increasing, raising serious questions for all concerned.

MYSTERY/BASS
Bass, Jefferson - Carved in Bone - 2006, 343p.
Dr. Bill Brockton, a forensic anthropologist, studies corpses in various states of decay for the sake of science. This newest case of a woman's body hidden in a cave, close to mummification, has even the famous Dr. Brockton baffled.

MYSTERY/BECKA
Becka, Elizabeth - Trace Evidence - 2005, 319p.
Forensic trace evidence expert Evelyn James is called to a horrific crime scene where the body of a young woman who has been forcibly drowned is recovered. James must use all her expertise in recovering the physical evidence to stop this killer before he gets to close to home.

FICTION/BECKETT
Beckett, Simon - The Chemistry of Death - 2006, 313p.
After Dr. David Hunter's wife and daughter are killed, he retreats to rural Norfolk where he hopes to escape his past. However, after several women are found brutally murdered, this former forensic anthropologist agrees to help find the killer.

MYSTERY/CONNOR
Connor, Beverly - A Rumor of Bones - 1996, 252p.
Forensic anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain finds herself reluctantly involved in contemporary crimes, when corpses are uncovered at a burial ground she and her crew are excavating.

MYSTERY/CORNWELL
Cornwell, Patricia - Postmortem - 1990, 293p.
Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is embroiled in a series of murders that have terrorized Richmond, Virginia. Scarpetta and her team must identify the killer before he attacks another woman.

FICTION/JOHANSEN
Johansen, Iris - The Face of Deception - 1998, 354p.
Eve Duncan, a world-renowned forensic sculptor, reconstructs the facial features of murder victims in the hopes of bringing closure to those left behind. Billionaire John Logan makes Eve an offer to reconstruct a skull that she finds hard to refuse.

FICTION/LOVETT
Lovett, Sarah - Dark Alchemy - 2003, 292p.
Dr. Sylvia Strange, a forensic psychiatrist, is concentrating on her upcoming wedding. That is, until she gets a call from the F.B.I. asking her to profile Dr. Christine Palmer, a world famous scientist, now suspected of serial poisoning her colleagues.

MYSTERY/REICHS
Reichs, Kathy - Deja Dead - 1997, 411p.
When forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan uncovers evidence that two bodies she has examined in her lab have similarities, she is convinced that a serial killer is on the loose. Tempe searches for answers that ultimately put her own life in danger.

MYSTERY/SLAUGHTER
Slaughter, Karin - Blindsighted - 2001, 311p.
Dr. Sara Linton is a pediatrician and part-time coroner in a tiny town in Georgia. When she discovers the body of a young college professor dead in the local diner, she must resolve her differences with her ex-husband, the chief of police, in order to solve the crime.

Prepared by Sheila Guenzer, July 2008