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1) 206 bones
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Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan wakes to find herself tied up in a small, dark, enclosed space and tries to think back over her most recent activities--accompanying the remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue, and battling an accusation of mishandling an autopsy--in an attempt to figure out where she is and who is responsible.
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A forensic pathologist discovers a vicious killer loose on a remote Scottish isle in this British thriller by "one of the country's best crime writers" (Sunday Express).
Dr. David Hunter should be at home in London with the woman he loves. Instead, as a favor to a beleaguered colleague, he's on the remote Hebridean island of Runa to inspect a grisly discovery. David is shocked by what he finds: a body almost totally incinerated except for the feet...
3) A dying fall
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Forensic anthropologist Ruth Galloway, is shocked when she finds out her old friend, Dan Golding, has died unexpectedly, but when she receives a letter from Dan dated before his death, he states that he has discovered an extraordinary archeological find but he fears for his life, but when Ruth is asked to examine the bones Dan had found, they disappear.
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Anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton founded Tennessee's world-famous Body Farm-a small piece of land where corpses are left to decay in order to gain important forensic information. Now, in the wake of a shocking crime in nearby Chattanooga, he's called upon by Jess Carter-the rising star of the state's medical examiners-to help her unravel a murderous puzzle. But after re-creating the death scene at the Body Farm, Brockton discovers his career, reputation,...
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The most riveting and ambitious novel to date in Jefferson Bass' New York Times bestselling Body Farm mystery series, The Inquisitor's Key takes forensic investigator Dr. Bill Brockton to Avignon, France, and embroils him in a deadly religious mystery that could shake the Vatican itself to its very foundations. Another sterling crime novel in the vein of Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, and Karin Slaughter, as well as TV's C.S.I., The Inquisitor's...
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In this thrilling mystery, “brilliant, feisty, independent” forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson investigate a seemingly cursed collection of Aboriginal skulls that are causing people to die from a mysterious fever—and the next person to fall ill is Nelson himself (Richmond Times-Dispatch).
When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval...
When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval...
10) Spider bones
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Temperance Brennan investigates the death of a man who was believed to have died almost forty years earlier in Vietnam and whose dog tags were found on another corpse, while also examining the remains of an adolescent boy who was found offshore and may have been the victim of a shark attack.
13) Skull duggery
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Berkley Prime Crime
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2009
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Anthropology professor Gideon Oliver travels with his wife Julie to the Mexican village of Teotitlan de Valle for a vacation, but rest and relaxation escape him when he is asked to examine a mummified corpse found in the desert, gets involved in a cold-case investigation of a child's murder, and discovers the ancient skull of a Zapotec princess in a local museum is actually that of a much-younger male.
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Scribner
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2008
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In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes a rather grisly discovery -- a decapitated chicken, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In the center of the shrine, there is the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, the headless body of a teenage boy is found by a man walking his dog. Nothing is clear -- neither when the deaths...
18) Break no bones
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The success of the Fox TV show Bones, based on bestseller Reich's series featuring forensic anthropologist Temeperance Brennan (Cross Bones, etc.), bodes well for this latest installment, in Brennan once again stumbles on a modern-day mystery inadvertently. While supervising a dig of Native American burial grounds in Charleston, S.C., Brennan finds more recent remains. Soon, her ex-husband who's a lawyer, appears in town, pursing leads in a missing...
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"Kathy Reichs--#1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones --returns with a riveting new novel set in Charlotte, North Carolina, featuring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan. Kathy Reichs's trademark blend of forensic descriptions that "chill to the bone" ( Entertainment Weekly ) and breathless suspense have made her books major bestsellers worldwide. Now, she delivers the fourteenth thriller in...
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2013
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"The latest from Kathy Reichs finds Tempe Brennan investigating the connections between a long-dead business man, the smuggling of mummified dogs from Peru, and the death of a teenage girl killed in a hit and run. When she discovers a human trafficking enterprise at the center of it all, the scope of the case extends from South America to Afghanistan. And Tempe's soon-to-be ex might have connections that run to the very heart of the trafficking ring"--...
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