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Autopsies can reveal the secrets of the dead. And this victim is sending Scarpetta a message... Summoned to an abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once had an intense love affair with.The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals… Continue reading Identity Unknown (Kay Scarpetta #28) by Patricia Cornwell
A mutilated body. No witnesses. The only clue, a message, “Those who I have made suffer will become saints and they shall lift me up from hell.” Winter, 1945. Munich is in ruins, and a savage killer is stalking the city. U.S. Army investigator Mason Collins enforces the law in the American Zone of Occupation.… Continue reading Madness in the Ruins (Mason Collins #1) by John A. Connell
The last time Detective Jamie Carver let a would be victim act as bait for a serial-killer, it ended badly – very badly. Now they want him to do it again, only this time the ‘victim’ is a Dominatrix. As if he hasn’t got enough on his plate… A brutal killer, poised to strike again any… Continue reading Last Gasp (DCI Jamie Carver #1) by Robert F. Barker
When Louis R. Vitullo started as a "beat cop" with the Chicago Police Department in 1951 he couldn't have guessed the impact he would make on the history of forensics. As Sergeant and then Chief Microanalyst of the crime lab, he oversaw some of Chicago's most notorious cases, which allowed him to address flaws in… Continue reading The Power of Truth: The Life of Louis R. Vitullo and the Legacy of the Rape Kit by Tristin Engels, PsyD