Search Results: Forensic from DASHbooks

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A smear of blood, a flake of paint, a hair or a fingerprint...the raw material of the police work conducted on the laboratory bench and under the microscope lens...the vital evidence that brings the killer to justice.The compelling history of forensic science, from Bertillon and the early pioneers to Simpson and the expert pathologists, chemists, toxicologists, and ballistics specialists of today...the men whose business is the scientific analysis of murder.

In good condition - has markings from use - has slight yellowing to page ends - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.On a hot late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner, Pete Marino, respond to a call about a dead bicyclist near the Kennedy School of Government. It appears that a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force.Even before Scarpetta's headquarters, the Cambridge Forensic Centre, has been officially notified about the case, Marino and Scarpetta's FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, receive suspicious calls, allegedly from someone at Interpol. But it makes no sense. Why would the elite international police agency know about the case and even be interested? With breathtaking speed it becomes apparent that an onslaught of interference and harassment might be the work of an anonymous cyberbully named Tailend Charlie, who has been sending cryptic communications to Scarpetta for over a… Read More

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Mass graves, actual skeletons in the closet, and a host of homicides steeped in bizarre clues and buried secrets - they're all in a day's work for one detective whose job begins when life ends. As a forensic anthropogist, Robert Mann listens to the stories the dead have to tell; he is the corpse whisperer.In this revealing casebook, Mann offers a portrait of a profession which is gruesome, dangerous and compelling. Read how he finally identified Jeffrey Dahmer's first victim, despite the serial killer's efforts to conceal the truth. Follow the grim dismantling of the Poughkeepsie 'House of Horrors' and join Mann in the heartbreaking task of sifting through human remains at the Pentagon crash-site on 11 September 2001.

In good condition - has markings from use - has slight yellowing to page ends - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. She is asked live on air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast, she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesley's.When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds a suspicious package - possibly a bomb - waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta's life finds her embroiled in a deadly plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of… Read More