Forensic


Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4)
Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2)
Spider Bones (Temperance Brennan, #13)
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7)
Break No Bones (Temperance Brennan, #9)
Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10)
Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6)
The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5)
Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan, #5)
All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)
Kathy Reichs
Bone is a miniature universe in which birth and death occur constantly. The basic unit is the osteon, composed of concentric loops of bone, a canal, osteocytes, vessels, and nerves. In living tissue osteons are born, nourished, and eventually replaced by newer units. When magnified and viewed under polarized light, osteons resemble tiny volcanoes, ovoid cones with central craters and flanks that spread out to flatlands of primary bone. The number of volcanoes increases with age, as does the cou ...more
Kathy Reichs, Fatal Voyage

Deborah Blum
His son, Joseph, an organic chemist, had once announced that he'd decided early on against forensic toxicology: he could never have so many lives and deaths on his conscience. His father understood him. Because sometimes the dead did walk in Alexander Gettler's sleep, sometimes they rattled in the black chair of Sing Sing, and always, as he admitted in that last vulnerable interview, 'I keep asking myself, have I done everything right? ...more
Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

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