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Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
viii, 360 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Norwich is riddled with old chalk-mining tunnels, but no one's sure exactly how many. When Ruth is called in to investigate a set of human remains found in one of them, she notices the bones are almost translucent, a sign they were boiled soon after death. Once more, she finds herself at the helm of a murder investigation. Meanwhile, DCI Nelson is hunting for a missing homeless woman, Barbara, who he hears has gone "underground." Could she have disappeared...
22) Stone maidens
Author
Series
Christine Prusik volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
305 pages : portrait ; 21 cm.
Description
A serial killer is strangling young women and dumping their lifeless bodies in the steep forested ravines of southern Indiana. With each corpse he leaves a calling card: a stone figureine wedged deep inside the victim's throat. FBI forensic anthropologist Christine Prusik saw such figurines placed inside the bodies of the dead years ago when researching in Papua New Guinea. Is someone trying to send Christine a message?
23) The stone circle
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"In the eleventh installment of the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, she and DCI Nelson are haunted by a ghost from their past, just as their future lands on shaky ground"--
24) 206 bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
Chicago forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy and the case of a missing heiress from Montreal--an investigation that becomes more complicated when two more bodies of elderly women are found in Montreal and Tempe faces the very real possibility that a colleague has sabotaged work in the lab.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
In her new book, Sue Black builds on the first [All That Remains], taking us on a guided tour of the human skeleton and explaining how each person's life history is revealed in their bones, which she calls "the last sentinels of our mortal life to bear witness to the way we lived it." Her narrative follows the skeleton from the top of the skull to the small bones in the foot. Each step of the journey includes an explanation of the biology--how the...
Author
Series
Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
281 p. ; 22 cm.
27) Devil bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
vii, 310 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
A call to examine a skull found in a hidden floor space plunges forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan into a case that may involve ritual murder.
28) Bones to ashes
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
viii, 310 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Series
Body farm mysteries volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Investigating a suspicious death in which the victim's remains were found in a burned car, forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton engages in an unorthodox experiment to better understand the case.
30) Bare bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
viii, 306 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Series
Description
"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"--...
32) Spider bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 13
Description
John Lowery was declared dead in 1968--the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Hemmingford, Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how could Lowery have died twice, and how did an American soldier end up in Canada? Tempe sets off...
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 24 cm.
34) Without mercy
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; cm.
Description
"In the most suspenseful installment of the New York Times bestselling Body Farm series to date, forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton investigates a bizarre murder--and confronts a deadly enemy he thought he'd put behind bars for good. Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton has spent twenty-five years solving brutal murders--but none so bizarre and merciless as his latest case: A ravaged set of skeletal remains is found chained to a tree on a...
36) Skull duggery
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
281 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Detective Gideon Oliver and his wife are on vacation in Mexico when a local police chief requests his assistance on a case. After Oliver realizes the coroner has misidentified two bodies, he concludes these two mistakes are no coincidence.
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 19
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
It's sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Temperance Brennan, still recovering from neurosurgery following an aneurysm, is battling nightmares, migraines, and what she thinks might be hallucinations when she receives a series of mysterious text messages, each containing a new picture of a corpse that is missing its face and hands. Immediately, she's anxious to know who the dead man is, and why the images were sent to her. An identified corpse...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (1000 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a much-needed break, forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth return to the Jeffersonian Institute, along with their team of investigative 'squints,' for another darkly humorous season of murder, mystery, controversy and chemistry. In addition to a vast array of personal crises, ranging from Angela's secret pregnancy to Booth's new relationship with a beautiful reporter, the team tackles a complex caseload...
39) Good blood
Author
Series
Gideon Oliver mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"In the next Ruth Galloway mystery, a vision of the Virgin Mary foreshadows a string of cold-blooded murders, revealing a dark current of religious fanaticism in an old medieval town. Known as England's Nazareth, the medieval town of Little Walsingham is famous for religious apparitions. So when Ruth Galloway's druid friend Cathbad sees a woman in a white dress and a dark blue cloak standing alone in the local cemetery one night, he takes her as a...
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