Waking to sirens in the night is hardly unusual for Samantha Owens. No longer a medical examiner, she doesn't lose sleep over them, but a routine police investigation in her neighborhood has her curious. When her friend, homicide detective Darren Fletcher, invites her to look over the evidence, she jumps at the chance and immediately realizes the crime scene has been staged. What seems to be a clear case of murder/suicide--a crime of passion--is anything...

In Elizabeth Becka’s latest highly suspenseful novel, forensic scientist Evelyn James returns to investigate a harrowing series of crimes–only to find that no one is safe.
Evelyn James is a forensic specialist in the Cleveland Medical Examiner’s office who’s juggling a demanding workload, a teenage daughter from a failed marriage, and a homicide detective boyfriend. And somehow she always happens to be involved in...

When the murder of a singer in Toussaint, Louisiana, reopens a supposedly solved murder case, medical examiner Reb O'Brien is forced to team up with Marc Girard, and as passion rages between them, the secrets of the town are revealed.

The Moores are missing: in a placid suburban town, the Moores, a perfect family, suddenly vanish without a trace. The housewife: former chief of detectives Maggie Denning is adjusting to a quiet new life in the suburbs, staying home with baby twins. One morning she sees a limo dropping off a glamorous woman at a nearby home. When she discovers that the same woman has been murdered, she starts asking questions around the neighborhood. Absolute zero:...

Trouble in Big Timber: Ford Cardwell is shocked when his college crush calls him out of the blue - even more so when he hears a gunshot. But when he joins forces with medical examiner Henrietta "Hitch" Rogers, she makes him wonder if the random call was a setup - not a murder. Twelve-gauge guardian: The bad news is that journalist Raine Chandler is on the run from a killer, but her luck is about to change as she catches the eye of hunky Cordell Winchester....

Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil--human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, medical student Norris Marshall has joined the ranks of local "resurrectionists"--those who plunder graveyards and harvest...

Forensics investigator Evelyn James, a trace evidence specialist, searches for a ruthless killer responsible for several bizarre murders in which young women are forcibly drowned with their feet chained and sunk in cement.

"Kay Scarpetta acepta una misión en Nueva York, donde la policía ha requerido su presencia en el hospital penal psiquiátrico para que examine a un herido. El paciente, Oscar Bane, aquejado de enanismo, se niega a ser reconocido por ningún otro médico. Cuando Kay comienza a examinarlo, Bane le cuenta una historia absolutamente rocambolesca"-- Leaving behind her Charleston forensic pathology practice to accept an assignment in New York City, Kay...

"Maura Isles decyduje się na udział w konferencji patologów sądowych. Spotkanie ma odbyć się w stanie Wyoming - miejscu, w którym o tej porze roku burze śnieżne są na porządku dziennym. Kiedy więc potężna zamieć uniemożliwia dalszą jazdę samochodem, Maura postanawia pieszo dotrzeć do najbliższej osady. Zmęczona i zmarznięta kobieta trafia do Królestwa Bożego, niewielkiej wioski zupełnie odciętej od cywilizacji. Pokryta grubą...

An investigation of a murder that began in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads medical examiner Kay deep into a nightmare that becomes her own.