Forensic Books

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Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1) Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.88 — 155,500 ratings — published 1997
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Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1) Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.03 — 255,143 ratings — published 1990
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 238,970 ratings — published 2003
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Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2) Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.96 — 50,738 ratings — published 1999
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Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4) Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4)
by (shelved 32 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.05 — 53,617 ratings — published 2001
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Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2) Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.04 — 85,013 ratings — published 1991
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Spider Bones (Temperance Brennan, #13) Spider Bones (Temperance Brennan, #13)
by (shelved 31 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.93 — 27,594 ratings — published 2010
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1) Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 217,914 ratings — published 2004
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Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10) Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10)
by (shelved 29 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.95 — 32,329 ratings — published 2007
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Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7) Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7)
by (shelved 29 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.04 — 36,384 ratings — published 2004
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Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6) Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6)
by (shelved 28 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.97 — 41,197 ratings — published 2003
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Break No Bones (Temperance Brennan, #9) Break No Bones (Temperance Brennan, #9)
by (shelved 28 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.98 — 32,225 ratings — published 2006
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The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5) The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5)
by (shelved 28 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.07 — 80,155 ratings — published 1994
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Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan, #5) Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan, #5)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.98 — 36,894 ratings — published 2002
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All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3) All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.07 — 76,090 ratings — published 1992
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Devil Bones (Temperance Brennan, #11) Devil Bones (Temperance Brennan, #11)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.91 — 30,982 ratings — published 2008
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206 Bones (Temperance Brennan, #12) 206 Bones (Temperance Brennan, #12)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.94 — 28,846 ratings — published 2009
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Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2) Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.87 — 55,745 ratings — published 2005
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Point of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9) Point of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.05 — 67,614 ratings — published 1998
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From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6) From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 63,159 ratings — published 1995
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Cause of Death (Kay Scarpetta, #7) Cause of Death (Kay Scarpetta, #7)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.95 — 55,410 ratings — published 1996
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Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4) Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
by (shelved 25 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.13 — 114,933 ratings — published 1993
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Unnatural Exposure (Kay Scarpetta, #8) Unnatural Exposure (Kay Scarpetta, #8)
by (shelved 25 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.07 — 63,702 ratings — published 1997
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Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,679 ratings — published 2014
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Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3) Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.57 — 40,175 ratings — published 2006
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Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12) Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.82 — 45,769 ratings — published 2003
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Carved in Bone (Body Farm, #1) Carved in Bone (Body Farm, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,479 ratings — published 2006
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Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan, #3) Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.94 — 39,312 ratings — published 2000
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The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11) The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.91 — 41,418 ratings — published 2000
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Predator (Kay Scarpetta, #14) Predator (Kay Scarpetta, #14)
by (shelved 22 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.73 — 35,608 ratings — published 2005
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Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,265 ratings — published 2003
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Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta, #16) Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta, #16)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.82 — 35,811 ratings — published 2008
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Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta, #15) Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta, #15)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.71 — 35,589 ratings — published 2007
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Trace (Kay Scarpetta, #13) Trace (Kay Scarpetta, #13)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.83 — 38,949 ratings — published 2004
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Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan, #15) Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan, #15)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.91 — 24,170 ratings — published 2012
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Flash and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #14) Flash and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #14)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,130 ratings — published 2011
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Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18) Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.65 — 26,971 ratings — published 2010
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Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta, #10) Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta, #10)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.93 — 44,939 ratings — published 1999
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Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8) Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,395 ratings — published 2005
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Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4) Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4)
by (shelved 19 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.76 — 29,410 ratings — published 2008
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Dexter Is Delicious (Dexter, #5) Dexter Is Delicious (Dexter, #5)
by (shelved 18 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.82 — 23,436 ratings — published 2010
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Flesh and Bone (Body Farm #2) Flesh and Bone (Body Farm #2)
by (shelved 18 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,947 ratings — published 2007
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,622 ratings — published 1994
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Red Mist (Kay Scarpetta, #19) Red Mist (Kay Scarpetta, #19)
by (shelved 16 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,060 ratings — published 2011
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The Scarpetta Factor (Kay Scarpetta, #17) The Scarpetta Factor (Kay Scarpetta, #17)
by (shelved 16 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.75 — 28,526 ratings — published 2009
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The Bone Bed (Kay Scarpetta, #20) The Bone Bed (Kay Scarpetta, #20)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.76 — 27,743 ratings — published 2012
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Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.32 — 47,673 ratings — published 2018
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Bones Never Lie (Temperance Brennan, #17) Bones Never Lie (Temperance Brennan, #17)
by (shelved 14 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.03 — 20,985 ratings — published 2014
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Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21) Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)
by (shelved 14 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.70 — 23,957 ratings — published 2013
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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?”
Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

“The discovery that detonated Cleveland is one of Britain’s great contributions to awareness of child abuse. In 1986 and 1987 the Leeds paediatricians Dr Jane Wynne and Dr Christopher Hobbs reported in the Lancet that they were seeing more children who were being buggered than battered. About 300 cases were corroborated. The children were young – two-thirds were pre-school children – and anal abuse was more common than vaginal penetration. They also noted that ‘boys and girls seem to be at similar risk’. Almost half of the children who suffered anal abuse also showed a sign written up in the forensic textbooks as ‘anal dilation’, an anus opening when it was supposed to stay shut; opening and expecting entry. What the paediatricians were observing was not an acute sign, the effect of a single intrusion – a spasm or seizure – but a sign that was telling a story about everyday life; the anatomy of adaption. Anal dilation seemed to describe the architecture of abuse: it allowed the body to receive an incoming object, regularly.”
Beatrix Campbell, Stolen Voices: The People and Politics Behind the Campaign to Discredit Childhood Testimony

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