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Author
Series
Clay Edison novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Natural causes or foul play? That's the question Clay Edison must answer each time he examines a body. Figuring out motives and chasing down suspects aren't part of his beat -- not until a seemingly open-and-shut case proves to be more than meets his highly trained eye. Eccentric, reclusive Walter Rennert lies cold at the bottom of his stairs. At first glance the scene looks straightforward: a once-respected psychology professor, done in by booze...
Author
Series
Clay Edison novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Clay Edison is busy. He s solved a decades-old crime and redeemed an innocent man, earning himself a suspension in the process. Things are getting serious with his girlfriend. Plus his brother s fresh out of prison, bringing with him a whole new set of complications. Then the phone rings in the dead of night. A wild party in a gentrifying East Bay neighborhood. A heated argument that spills into the street. Gunshots. Chaos. For Clay and his fellow...
8) Frozen stiff
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Deputy coroner Mattie Winston's latest case wreaks havoc on her love life as she investigates the murder of a beautiful investigative reporter who once dated her boyfriend detective Steven Hurley--and who was stabbed with his knife.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. As a result, they share their small Vientiane house with an assortment of homeless people, mendicants, and oddballs. One of these oddballs is Noo, a Buddhist monk, who rides out on his bicycle one day and never comes back, leaving only a cryptic note in the refrigerator. Realizing that he needs rescuing, Siri and Daeng sneak illegally...
Author
Series
Clay Edison novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Deputy coroner Clay Edison discovers that buried secrets can be deadly in this riveting thriller from a father-son team of bestselling authors who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King). Deputy Coroner Clay Edison has his hands full. He's got a new baby who won't sleep. He's working the graveyard shift. And he's trying, for once, to mind his own business. Then comes the first call. Workers demolishing a local park have made a haunting...
11) The coroner
Author
Series
Coroner's daughter volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Summoned from her promising surgical career to step in for her ailing father's medical examiner post, Emily Hartfod discovers home is the where the bodies are"--Jacket.
Author
Series
Clay Edison novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Things get personal for Deputy Coroner Clay Edison when a murder hits close to home in this riveting, emotional thriller from the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King). A raging wildfire. A massive blackout. A wealthy man shot to death in his palatial hilltop home. For Clay Edison, it's all in a day's work. As a deputy coroner, caring for the dead, he speaks for those who cannot speak for themselves....
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Denied retirement once again when the Lao government requires him to supervise an excavation for the remains of a U.S. fighter pilot who crashed in the jungle a decade earlier, national coroner Dr. Siri becomes suspicious when a series of fatal accidnets culminates in the team getting trapped in a cabin.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Lancashire, England, 1740. A grim discovery has been made: a squire's wife, Dolores Brockletower, lies in the woods above her home at Garlick Hall, her throat brutally slashed. Called to the scene, Coroner Titus Cragg finds the Brockletower household awash with rumor and suspicion. He enlists the help of his astute young friend, doctor Luke Fidelis, to throw light on the case.
17) Precinct 13
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"When the cops made some cryptic remarks about being careful with the body they brought in, Alex thought the boys in blue were messing with her. That is, until something freaky happens that no amount of med school could have prepared her for. By the time Alex gets herself together, the body has disappeared and the other residents of the morgue start talking her ear off. After working up the courage to report the missing body, Alex is transferred to...
18) Dark waters
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Preston, England, 1741. The drowning of drunken publican Antony Egan is no surprise -- even if it comes as an unpleasant shock to coroner Titus Cragg, whose wife was the old man's niece. But Cragg does his duty to the letter, and the inquest's verdict is accidental death. Meanwhile the town is rife with rumors and factions, as the general election is only a week away and the two local seats are to be contested by four rival candidates. But Cragg's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1743, and the tanners of Preston are a pariah community, plying their unwholesome trade beside a stretch of riverside marsh where many Prestonians by ancient right graze their livestock. When the body of a newborn child is found in one of their tanning pits, Cragg's inquiry falls foul of a cabal of merchants dead set on modernizing the town's economy and regarding the despised tanners--and Cragg's apparent championship of them--as obstacles...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Laos, 1979: Dr. Siri Paiboun, the twice-retired ex-National Coroner of Laos, receives an unmarked package in the mail. Inside is a hand-woven pha sin, a colorful traditional skirt worn by women in certain northern Lao tribes. A lovely present, but who sent it to him, and why? And, more importantly, why is there a severed human finger stitched into the sin's lining? Siri is convinced someone is trying to send him a message, and won't let the matter...
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