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Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.87 — 158,016 ratings — published 1997
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.02 — 271,065 ratings — published 1990
Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.96 — 52,474 ratings — published 1999
Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.05 — 54,881 ratings — published 2001
Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.04 — 91,571 ratings — published 1991
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,208 ratings — published 2003
Spider Bones (Temperance Brennan, #13)
by (shelved 31 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,545 ratings — published 2010
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 226,886 ratings — published 2004
Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7)
by (shelved 30 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.04 — 37,343 ratings — published 2004
Break No Bones (Temperance Brennan, #9)
by (shelved 29 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.98 — 33,286 ratings — published 2006
Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10)
by (shelved 29 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,105 ratings — published 2007
Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6)
by (shelved 28 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.97 — 42,272 ratings — published 2003
The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5)
by (shelved 28 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.08 — 84,442 ratings — published 1994
Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan, #5)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.98 — 38,128 ratings — published 2002
All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.08 — 81,107 ratings — published 1992
Devil Bones (Temperance Brennan, #11)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,962 ratings — published 2008
206 Bones (Temperance Brennan, #12)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,767 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 — 13,832 ratings — published 2014
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,948 ratings — published 2005
Point of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.05 — 70,225 ratings — published 1998
From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 66,646 ratings — published 1995
Cause of Death (Kay Scarpetta, #7)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.95 — 58,486 ratings — published 1996
Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
by (shelved 25 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,531 ratings — published 1993
Unnatural Exposure (Kay Scarpetta, #8)
by (shelved 25 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.07 — 66,425 ratings — published 1997
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.57 — 41,826 ratings — published 2006
Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,725 ratings — published 2000
Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.82 — 48,114 ratings — published 2003
Carved in Bone (Body Farm, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,750 ratings — published 2006
The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.92 — 43,647 ratings — published 2000
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,886 ratings — published 2003
Predator (Kay Scarpetta, #14)
by (shelved 22 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.73 — 37,681 ratings — published 2005
Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta, #16)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,670 ratings — published 2008
Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta, #15)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.71 — 37,642 ratings — published 2007
Trace (Kay Scarpetta, #13)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.84 — 41,082 ratings — published 2004
Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan, #15)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.91 — 25,213 ratings — published 2012
Flash and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #14)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,822 ratings — published 2011
Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.66 — 28,466 ratings — published 2010
Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta, #10)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.93 — 47,570 ratings — published 1999
Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,411 ratings — published 2005
Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4)
by (shelved 19 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,806 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 — 8,133 ratings — published 2004
Dexter Is Delicious (Dexter, #5)
by (shelved 18 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.82 — 24,653 ratings — published 2010
Flesh and Bone (Body Farm #2)
by (shelved 18 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,071 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 — 6,707 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 — 51,541 ratings — published 2018
Red Mist (Kay Scarpetta, #19)
by (shelved 16 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.84 — 30,426 ratings — published 2011
The Scarpetta Factor (Kay Scarpetta, #17)
by (shelved 16 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,206 ratings — published 2009
Dust (Kay Scarpetta, #21)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.71 — 25,329 ratings — published 2013
The Bone Bed (Kay Scarpetta, #20)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.77 — 29,171 ratings — published 2012
Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles, #8)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.19 — 54,599 ratings — published 2010
“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
“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
