Women Forensics

Parthia Alexander, a 25-year-old New York model, is admitted against her will to North Forks Psychiatric Hospital, her face mutilated by her own hand. The therapist assigned to her is Vale Messenger, a woman new to this work, trying to make the best of a second career. When Vale pieces together the secret of Parthia’s past - that Parthia’s father, a cosmetic surgeon, had repeatedly operated on his daughter to turn her into a “perfect beauty” - she is only at the beginning of an ordeal that her clinical supervisor will call “one for the books”.

Als Rechtsmedizinerin Julia Schwarz in einer eiskalten Winternacht zu einem Leichenfundort gerufen wird, ist sie zunächst ratlos. Auf einem Platz mitten in der Stadt steht eine Eisskulptur, aber eine Leiche ist nicht zu sehen. Erst bei genauerem Hinblicken erkennt Julia einen im Eis eingeschlossenen Frauenkörper. Wie ist die Tote in die Eisskulptur hineingekommen? Und: Wie ist die Skulptur auf den Platz gelangt? Laut Kriminalkommissar Florian Kessler gibt es keinen einzigen Zeugen.

When Jessica James wakes up half naked behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago, she thinks at first the hot intern feeding her Fiery Mule Slammers slipped her a Mickey. But after a pattern of similar incidents around Northwestern Research Hospital makes the news, Jessica realizes she wasn't raped, she was robbed. Robbed of something as valuable as life itself. The "dumpster girls" are all top of their class, attractive college students, who are drugged and dropped unconscious behind dumpsters. When rape-kits all come back negative, the police are baffled. But when the perp escalates and kills one of his victims, Jessica takes it on herself to solve the bewildering mystery and save herself and her friends as the "thief" closes in on them. Hunting for the predator, Jessica discovers secrets about her own identity that force her to rethink her past. The solution to the mystery lies in the cowgirl philosopher's boot-cut genes.

Audrey Edmunds was a happily married young mother of two with a baby on the way; the neighborhood soccer mom in a small Wisconsin town providing casual childcare when the unthinkable happened. An infant died in her care at the same time the unknown science of Shaken Baby Syndrome hit the media. Swept up in a media frenzy, Edmunds was accused of killing the child through SBS. She was stripped from her children and husband and sent to prison where she would fight for freedom 13 years before she was finally exonerated.

Ihr neuester Fall konfrontiert Tempe Brennan, forensische Anthropologin, mit einem albtraumhaften Szenario: In einer verlassenen Wohnung in Montreal findet sich, eingewickelt in ein Handtuch, versteckt unter einem Waschbecken, die Leiche eines Neugeborenen. Schlimmer noch, neben diesem tauchen noch zwei weitere tote Babys auf. Die fieberhafte Suche nach der Mutter beginnt. Ist sie eine herzlose Mörderin, getrieben von ihren Dämonen? Auf der Flucht vor ihrem Zuhälter?

Ein ermordetes Mädchen, die Überreste zweier Motorradfahrer nach einem Bombenanschlag und der ausgegrabene Schädel einer jungen Frau - damit hat die forensische Anthropologin Tempe Brennan im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes alle Hände voll zu tun. Doch als sie einen brisanten Zusammenhang zwischen den Toten und zwei verfeindeten Motorrad-Banden erahnt, gerät nicht nur Tempe in Lebensgefahr. Leider entwickelt auch ihr Neffe Kit vein erhängnisvolles Faible für Motorräder...

Nur wer ihre Sprache versteht, kann die Geheimnisse der Knochen lüften.

In "Die Sprache der Knochen" sieht sich die forensische Anthropologin Tempe Brennan vor einige Rätsel gestellt - darunter auch, was sie auf den Heiratsantrag von Detective Andrew Ryan antworten soll. Doch die Fragen zu ihrem Familienstand treten in den Hintergrund, als ein Hobbydetektiv behauptet, eine Gruppe menschlicher Überreste in Brennans Labor identifizieren zu können.

Ein neuer Fall für die Knochenjägerin. Der Tod einer jungen Frau, deren Leiche an einem einsamen Highway im Straßengraben deponiert wurde, bereitet Forensikerin Tempe Brennan schlaflose Nächte. Der Teenager könnte ohne Papiere ins Land gereist sein, eine Spur, die Tempe zu dem Geschäftsmann John-Henry Story führt. Doch ihr Hauptverdächtiger starb Monate zuvor bei einem mysteriösen Brand. Und dann ist da noch der Fall eines Schmugglers, der kuriose mumifizierte Artefakte in die USA schleust.

Tempe Brennan ist forensische Anthropologin in Montreal. Skelette und verweste Körperteile gehören zu ihrem Alltag. Als die 23-jährige Isabelle missbraucht, erdrosselt und zerstückelt in Müllsäcken aufgefunden wird, erinnert sich Tempe an einen Fall ein Jahr zuvor. Sie versucht, die beiden Verbrechen mit drei weiteren Leichen in Verbindung zu bringen. Doch Detective Luc Claudel nimmt sie nicht ernst.

The New York Times best-selling author of Firestorm, Iris Johansen, returns with a psychological thriller so terrifying, so relentlessly paced, it won't leave you time to catch your breath before the next shock comes. A forensic sculptor is locked in a deadly duel with a serial killer determined to destroy her, one life at a time.

Ten years ago in California, Daniel Pell, a self-styled Charles Manson, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering an entire family: husband, wife, and two children, plus one of his young male followers. He is brought to Salinas, California, to interview with Kathryn Dance after he is implicated in yet another killing. Things go terribly wrong during an interview break, and Pell escapes, intent on killing again.

When the skeleton of a young girl, not yet a teenager, is discovered in Acadia, Canada, Tempe Brennan is reminded of Evangelina, her best friend in her preteen years, who was mysteriously taken away when she was 12. Evangelina was from strange and faraway Acadia. She was named after Evangeline in the Longfellow poem, and loved poetry. Tempe found her exotic and glamorous, and then suddenly she was gone, and Tempe was told not to try to find her, that she was "dangerous".

Forensic pathologist Dr. Jill Quint is a brilliant mind in the world of death investigation. But when she and her three closest friends—a social media maven, a forensic accountant, and a photographer—are thrown into a twisted murder case, they'll need all their skills to unravel the clues and catch the killer. As they delve deeper into the mystery, they'll discover that nothing is as it seems and that the truth is more sinister than they ever imagined. With unexpected twists and turns, this gripping mystery story will keep listeners on the edge of their seats until the very end.

Something odd in the deceased's mouth sets Alexa and the team on a new track—to find Quinn's murderer. As they work to narrow the suspect field, a second homicide—and a stolen cache of weapons from a locked room in the bunker—ramp up the investigation and the risk to Alexa's life. Will she be able to solve this particular riddle before she becomes victim #3?

After completing the biggest case of his career, private detective Hank DeShear returns home to start treatment for a disabling genetic condition that could end his life, but he learns his partner on the prior case has just been murdered. Was he wrong to conclude the secretive killer known as The Greyhound had declared a truce? Or, have disciples of The Greyhound surfaced to carry on with the murders?

When a body is found half-submerged in a molten mud pot in one of Rotorua's famous geothermal wonderlands, forensics expert Alexa Glock spots a way to prolong her stay in New Zealand, which she has been visiting for work. Teeth are her expertise, and the investigation needs her help, as other ways of identifying the body may have...melted away. Joining Detective Inspector Bruce Horne and his team, Alexa discovers that the murder victim, a city councilman, had trespassed on an island sacred to the Maori.

New Zealand's remote Milford Track seems the perfect place for forensic investigator Alexa Glock to reconnect with her brother Charlie, with whom she hasn't spent much time since they were kids. But their backpacking trip seems ill-fated from the start: She must stop on the way to examine nine skeletons—most likely Māori tribespeople—whose graves have been unearthed by highway construction. Before she opens the first casket, a Māori elder gives her a dire warning: The viewing of bones can unleash misfortune to the living. Or worse.

Greed, the need for power, and a heroine. Pharmaceutical has all the elements of a good conspiracy. CEO R. Curtis Larson is out to make money and doesn't have a lot of scruples about how he does it. Diane McMichael gets in his way. Powerful allies on both sides complicate matters. If you enjoy an action packed audiobook that will keep you interested until the end, pick up a copy of Pharmaceutical.

Alexa Glock is at a crossroads—personally and professionally. As an American working and living in New Zealand, she's come to love the place with its rugged beauty and warm, friendly people. But there's still so much she wants to learn in her field of forensic odontology, and her professional crush in Scotland has just interviewed her for a position at the University of Edinburgh. To complicate matters, she learns that the man who professes to love her had been unfaithful to his ex-wife.

Millie Goodheart, the chief librarian in Emeryville, California, survived a child’s nightmare; savage abuse at the hands of her father, a brutal, violent drunk. She swore never again, and chose for her life mate Henry Goodheart, a gentle giant who promised a loving, safe, and secure life, but ultimately her nightmare recurred as Henry changed from savior to abuser. No person, no woman escapes the residual effects of such violence and she eventually reaches the fateful and climactic moment of her life: to surrender or finally stand up for herself and for her daughters.