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Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.87 — 157,620 ratings — published 1997
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.02 — 269,338 ratings — published 1990
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 248,334 ratings — published 2003
Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.96 — 52,232 ratings — published 1999
Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.05 — 54,745 ratings — published 2001
Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.04 — 90,690 ratings — published 1991
Spider Bones (Temperance Brennan, #13)
by (shelved 31 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,458 ratings — published 2010
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 226,052 ratings — published 2004
Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7)
by (shelved 30 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.04 — 37,249 ratings — published 2004
Break No Bones (Temperance Brennan, #9)
by (shelved 29 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.98 — 33,206 ratings — published 2006
Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10)
by (shelved 29 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,021 ratings — published 2007
Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6)
by (shelved 28 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.97 — 42,150 ratings — published 2003
The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5)
by (shelved 28 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.08 — 83,874 ratings — published 1994
Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan, #5)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.98 — 37,985 ratings — published 2002
All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.08 — 80,458 ratings — published 1992
Devil Bones (Temperance Brennan, #11)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,884 ratings — published 2008
206 Bones (Temperance Brennan, #12)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,689 ratings — published 2009
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,653 ratings — published 2005
Point of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.05 — 69,841 ratings — published 1998
From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 66,159 ratings — published 1995
Cause of Death (Kay Scarpetta, #7)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.95 — 58,106 ratings — published 1996
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,705 ratings — published 2014
Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
by (shelved 25 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.13 — 118,801 ratings — published 1993
Unnatural Exposure (Kay Scarpetta, #8)
by (shelved 25 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.07 — 66,058 ratings — published 1997
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.57 — 41,585 ratings — published 2006
Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,545 ratings — published 2000
Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.82 — 47,791 ratings — published 2003
Carved in Bone (Body Farm, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,722 ratings — published 2006
The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.92 — 43,361 ratings — published 2000
Predator (Kay Scarpetta, #14)
by (shelved 22 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.73 — 37,429 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 — 14,812 ratings — published 2003
Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta, #16)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,435 ratings — published 2008
Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta, #15)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.71 — 37,390 ratings — published 2007
Trace (Kay Scarpetta, #13)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.84 — 40,844 ratings — published 2004
Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan, #15)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,094 ratings — published 2012
Flash and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #14)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,754 ratings — published 2011
Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.66 — 28,281 ratings — published 2010
Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta, #10)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.93 — 47,242 ratings — published 1999
Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,307 ratings — published 2005
Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4)
by (shelved 19 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,665 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 — 8,106 ratings — published 2004
Dexter Is Delicious (Dexter, #5)
by (shelved 18 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.82 — 24,503 ratings — published 2010
Flesh and Bone (Body Farm #2)
by (shelved 18 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,053 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 — 6,695 ratings — published 1994
Red Mist (Kay Scarpetta, #19)
by (shelved 16 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.84 — 30,251 ratings — published 2011
The Scarpetta Factor (Kay Scarpetta, #17)
by (shelved 16 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.76 — 29,975 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 — 51,049 ratings — published 2018
Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.71 — 25,134 ratings — published 2013
The Bone Bed (Kay Scarpetta, #20)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.77 — 28,969 ratings — published 2012
The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.20 — 199,466 ratings — published 1997
“The stimulus to thought lies in the detail provided.”
― Introduction to Forensic & Criminal Psychology
― Introduction to Forensic & Criminal Psychology
“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?”
― The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
― The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York












