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Marin County, California is a study in contradictions. Its natural beauty attracts thousands of visitors every year, yet the county also is home to San Quentin Prison, one of the oldest and largest penitentiaries in the country. Marin ranks in the top one percent of counties nationwide in terms of affluence and overall health, yet it is far above the norm in drug overdoses and alcoholism, and comprises a large percentage of suicides from the Golden...
4) Blind alley
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Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is shocked when her work on the skull of a newly discovered victim reveals a face nearly identical to that of Jane, her adopted daughter with detective Joe Quinn, and the situation worsens when Eve and Joe learn Jane has been targeted by a serial killer obsessed with women who look like Cira, a beautiful young actress in ancient Rome.
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Pilgrim is the code name for a world class and legendary secret agent. His adversary is known only as the Saracen. As a young boy, the Saracen saw his dissident father beheaded in a Saudi Arabian public square, creating a burning desire to destroy the special relationship between the US and the Kingdom. When a woman's body is found in a seedy hotel near Ground Zero, the techniques are pulled from a cult classic of forensic science that Pilgrim wrote...
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"Two fiery deaths have young lawyer Daniel Pitt and his scientist friend Miriam fford Croft racing to solve a forensic crisis in an explosive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Triple Jeopardy. When a desperate woman comes to Daniel seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man's innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and setting a fire to conceal the body, but Daniel is sure that science...
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"In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder. For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no American book that tells this remarkable story--in which Conan Doyle becomes a real-life detective on an actual murder case. In Conan Doyle for the Defense, Margalit...
10) Port mortuary
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When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover...
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A merry Murdoch Christmas: At a charity gala, Detective Murdoch and his wife, Dr. Julia Ogden find the host dead from a broken neck. Inspector Brackenreid suspects the culprit is the legendary Christmas creature Krampus.
Once upon a Murdoch Christmas: When Murdoch investigates a daring robbery where the culprit seemed to possess superhuman abillities, Constable Crabtree realizes the robber resembles a character from his novel.
Home for the holidays:...
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Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is tempted into doing a job for billionaire computer magnate John Logan by the promise of a huge donation to a charitable organization that helps locate missing children, but she did not realize that identifying the skull he wants her to reconstruct could get them all killed.
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