22 books
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Forensic Books
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Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.88 — 157,225 ratings — published 1997
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.03 — 267,443 ratings — published 1990
Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.05 — 54,599 ratings — published 2001
Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.04 — 89,733 ratings — published 1991
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 246,579 ratings — published 2003
Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.96 — 52,003 ratings — published 1999
Spider Bones (Temperance Brennan, #13)
by (shelved 31 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,354 ratings — published 2010
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 225,136 ratings — published 2004
Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7)
by (shelved 30 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.04 — 37,125 ratings — published 2004
Break No Bones (Temperance Brennan, #9)
by (shelved 29 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.98 — 33,094 ratings — published 2006
Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10)
by (shelved 29 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.95 — 32,909 ratings — published 2007
Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6)
by (shelved 28 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.97 — 42,018 ratings — published 2003
The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5)
by (shelved 28 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.07 — 83,128 ratings — published 1994
Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan, #5)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.98 — 37,821 ratings — published 2002
All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.07 — 79,629 ratings — published 1992
Devil Bones (Temperance Brennan, #11)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,775 ratings — published 2008
206 Bones (Temperance Brennan, #12)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,587 ratings — published 2009
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,365 ratings — published 2005
Point of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.05 — 69,446 ratings — published 1998
From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 65,547 ratings — published 1995
Cause of Death (Kay Scarpetta, #7)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.95 — 57,627 ratings — published 1996
Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
by (shelved 25 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.13 — 118,050 ratings — published 1993
Unnatural Exposure (Kay Scarpetta, #8)
by (shelved 25 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.07 — 65,626 ratings — published 1997
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,583 ratings — published 2014
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.57 — 41,366 ratings — published 2006
Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,347 ratings — published 2000
Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.82 — 47,439 ratings — published 2003
Carved in Bone (Body Farm, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,673 ratings — published 2006
The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.92 — 43,015 ratings — published 2000
Predator (Kay Scarpetta, #14)
by (shelved 22 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.73 — 37,146 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 4.23 — 14,728 ratings — published 2003
Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta, #16)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,181 ratings — published 2008
Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta, #15)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.71 — 37,094 ratings — published 2007
Trace (Kay Scarpetta, #13)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.84 — 40,536 ratings — published 2004
Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan, #15)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,955 ratings — published 2012
Flash and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #14)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,658 ratings — published 2011
Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.66 — 28,059 ratings — published 2010
Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta, #10)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.93 — 46,825 ratings — published 1999
Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,207 ratings — published 2005
Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4)
by (shelved 19 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,496 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 — 8,074 ratings — published 2004
Dexter Is Delicious (Dexter, #5)
by (shelved 18 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.82 — 24,376 ratings — published 2010
Flesh and Bone (Body Farm #2)
by (shelved 18 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,025 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 — 6,682 ratings — published 1994
Red Mist (Kay Scarpetta, #19)
by (shelved 16 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.84 — 30,046 ratings — published 2011
The Scarpetta Factor (Kay Scarpetta, #17)
by (shelved 16 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.76 — 29,752 ratings — published 2009
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.32 — 50,473 ratings — published 2018
Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.71 — 24,906 ratings — published 2013
The Bone Bed (Kay Scarpetta, #20)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.77 — 28,745 ratings — published 2012
The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.20 — 198,771 ratings — published 1997
“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.”
― Stolen Voices: The People and Politics Behind the Campaign to Discredit Childhood Testimony
― Stolen Voices: The People and Politics Behind the Campaign to Discredit Childhood Testimony
“I’ve been twenty one years as a nurse, five years as a forensic nurse.” Bunmi was seducing Asa into accepting a fact that her interrogations were professional and infallible “I’ve come across countless MOs of various rapists. Many a rapist seems to be cautious of AIDS so they coerce their victims into stripping and only for them to penetrate in between the thighs.”
― Breasts of Evidence
― Breasts of Evidence












