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Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.87 — 157,845 ratings — published 1997
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.02 — 270,405 ratings — published 1990
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 249,457 ratings — published 2003
Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.96 — 52,368 ratings — published 1999
Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.05 — 54,828 ratings — published 2001
Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.04 — 91,232 ratings — published 1991
Spider Bones (Temperance Brennan, #13)
by (shelved 31 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,507 ratings — published 2010
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 226,500 ratings — published 2004
Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7)
by (shelved 30 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.04 — 37,307 ratings — published 2004
Break No Bones (Temperance Brennan, #9)
by (shelved 29 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.98 — 33,251 ratings — published 2006
Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10)
by (shelved 29 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,071 ratings — published 2007
Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6)
by (shelved 28 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.97 — 42,235 ratings — published 2003
The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5)
by (shelved 28 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.08 — 84,239 ratings — published 1994
Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan, #5)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.98 — 38,068 ratings — published 2002
All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.08 — 80,865 ratings — published 1992
Devil Bones (Temperance Brennan, #11)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,933 ratings — published 2008
206 Bones (Temperance Brennan, #12)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,750 ratings — published 2009
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,781 ratings — published 2014
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,808 ratings — published 2005
Point of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.05 — 70,094 ratings — published 1998
From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 66,464 ratings — published 1995
Cause of Death (Kay Scarpetta, #7)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.95 — 58,356 ratings — published 1996
Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
by (shelved 25 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,195 ratings — published 1993
Unnatural Exposure (Kay Scarpetta, #8)
by (shelved 25 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.07 — 66,287 ratings — published 1997
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.57 — 41,711 ratings — published 2006
Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,652 ratings — published 2000
Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.82 — 47,989 ratings — published 2003
Carved in Bone (Body Farm, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,740 ratings — published 2006
The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.92 — 43,537 ratings — published 2000
Predator (Kay Scarpetta, #14)
by (shelved 22 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.73 — 37,593 ratings — published 2005
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 4.22 — 14,852 ratings — published 2003
Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta, #16)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,578 ratings — published 2008
Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta, #15)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.71 — 37,556 ratings — published 2007
Trace (Kay Scarpetta, #13)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.84 — 40,998 ratings — published 2004
Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan, #15)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.91 — 25,159 ratings — published 2012
Flash and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #14)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,799 ratings — published 2011
Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.66 — 28,390 ratings — published 2010
Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta, #10)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.93 — 47,454 ratings — published 1999
Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,373 ratings — published 2005
Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4)
by (shelved 19 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,738 ratings — published 2008
Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,123 ratings — published 2004
Dexter Is Delicious (Dexter, #5)
by (shelved 18 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.82 — 24,585 ratings — published 2010
Flesh and Bone (Body Farm #2)
by (shelved 18 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,067 ratings — published 2007
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 — 6,700 ratings — published 1994
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.32 — 51,347 ratings — published 2018
Red Mist (Kay Scarpetta, #19)
by (shelved 16 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.84 — 30,357 ratings — published 2011
The Scarpetta Factor (Kay Scarpetta, #17)
by (shelved 16 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,114 ratings — published 2009
Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.71 — 25,249 ratings — published 2013
The Bone Bed (Kay Scarpetta, #20)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.77 — 29,087 ratings — published 2012
Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles, #8)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.19 — 54,492 ratings — published 2010
“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 count of abandoned calderas. By determining the density of these features one arrives at an age estimate.”
― Fatal Voyage
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 count of abandoned calderas. By determining the density of these features one arrives at an age estimate.”
― Fatal Voyage
“The stimulus to thought lies in the detail provided.”
― Introduction to Forensic & Criminal Psychology
― Introduction to Forensic & Criminal Psychology
