Forensic Books

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Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1) Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.88 — 156,001 ratings — published 1997
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Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1) Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.03 — 256,799 ratings — published 1990
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Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4) Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.05 — 53,862 ratings — published 2001
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 241,210 ratings — published 2003
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Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2) Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.96 — 51,046 ratings — published 1999
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Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2) Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.04 — 85,886 ratings — published 1991
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Spider Bones (Temperance Brennan, #13) Spider Bones (Temperance Brennan, #13)
by (shelved 31 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.93 — 27,792 ratings — published 2010
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1) Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 219,955 ratings — published 2004
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Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7) Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7)
by (shelved 30 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.04 — 36,565 ratings — published 2004
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Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10) Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10)
by (shelved 29 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.95 — 32,492 ratings — published 2007
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Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6) Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6)
by (shelved 28 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.97 — 41,394 ratings — published 2003
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Break No Bones (Temperance Brennan, #9) Break No Bones (Temperance Brennan, #9)
by (shelved 28 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.98 — 32,434 ratings — published 2006
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The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5) The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5)
by (shelved 28 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.07 — 80,824 ratings — published 1994
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Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan, #5) Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan, #5)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.98 — 37,104 ratings — published 2002
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All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3) All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.07 — 76,778 ratings — published 1992
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Devil Bones (Temperance Brennan, #11) Devil Bones (Temperance Brennan, #11)
by (shelved 27 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.91 — 31,188 ratings — published 2008
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206 Bones (Temperance Brennan, #12) 206 Bones (Temperance Brennan, #12)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.95 — 29,044 ratings — published 2009
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Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2) Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,228 ratings — published 2005
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Point of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9) Point of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.05 — 67,955 ratings — published 1998
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From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6) From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 63,646 ratings — published 1995
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Cause of Death (Kay Scarpetta, #7) Cause of Death (Kay Scarpetta, #7)
by (shelved 26 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.95 — 55,845 ratings — published 1996
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Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4) Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)
by (shelved 25 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.13 — 115,514 ratings — published 1993
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Unnatural Exposure (Kay Scarpetta, #8) Unnatural Exposure (Kay Scarpetta, #8)
by (shelved 25 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,072 ratings — published 1997
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Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,951 ratings — published 2014
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Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3) Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.57 — 40,517 ratings — published 2006
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Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan, #3) Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.94 — 39,577 ratings — published 2000
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Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12) Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.82 — 46,154 ratings — published 2003
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Carved in Bone (Body Farm, #1) Carved in Bone (Body Farm, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,535 ratings — published 2006
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The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11) The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11)
by (shelved 23 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.91 — 41,727 ratings — published 2000
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Predator (Kay Scarpetta, #14) Predator (Kay Scarpetta, #14)
by (shelved 22 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.73 — 35,942 ratings — published 2005
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Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales 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 — 14,380 ratings — published 2003
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Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta, #16) Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta, #16)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.82 — 36,110 ratings — published 2008
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Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta, #15) Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta, #15)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.71 — 35,909 ratings — published 2007
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Trace (Kay Scarpetta, #13) Trace (Kay Scarpetta, #13)
by (shelved 21 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.83 — 39,282 ratings — published 2004
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Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan, #15) Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan, #15)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,369 ratings — published 2012
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Flash and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #14) Flash and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #14)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,270 ratings — published 2011
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Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18) Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta, #18)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.65 — 27,245 ratings — published 2010
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Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta, #10) Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta, #10)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.93 — 45,338 ratings — published 1999
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Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8) Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8)
by (shelved 20 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,584 ratings — published 2005
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Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4) Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4)
by (shelved 19 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.76 — 29,709 ratings — published 2008
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Dexter Is Delicious (Dexter, #5) Dexter Is Delicious (Dexter, #5)
by (shelved 18 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.82 — 23,683 ratings — published 2010
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Flesh and Bone (Body Farm #2) Flesh and Bone (Body Farm #2)
by (shelved 18 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,963 ratings — published 2007
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist 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 — 6,641 ratings — published 1994
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Red Mist (Kay Scarpetta, #19) Red Mist (Kay Scarpetta, #19)
by (shelved 16 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,318 ratings — published 2011
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The Scarpetta Factor (Kay Scarpetta, #17) The Scarpetta Factor (Kay Scarpetta, #17)
by (shelved 16 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.76 — 28,827 ratings — published 2009
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Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.32 — 48,463 ratings — published 2018
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The Bone Bed (Kay Scarpetta, #20) The Bone Bed (Kay Scarpetta, #20)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 3.76 — 27,997 ratings — published 2012
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The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1) The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.20 — 196,150 ratings — published 1997
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Bones Never Lie (Temperance Brennan, #17) Bones Never Lie (Temperance Brennan, #17)
by (shelved 14 times as forensic)
avg rating 4.03 — 21,159 ratings — published 2014
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Dennis Howitt
“The stimulus to thought lies in the detail provided.”
Dennis Howitt, Introduction to Forensic & Criminal Psychology

Deborah Blum
“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?”
Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

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