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"While on her evening run, serial killer expert Dr. Charlotte Stone comes across a bloodied and hysterical woman who raves to Charlie that she was forced to kill two others. Though unsure if this gut-wrenching story is true, Charlie gets her to a hospital. But then she remembers an almost identical story told to her by a prisoner incarcerated at Wallens Ridge. Drawing on her despised ability to communicate with the newly dead, Charlie discovers a...
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2014.
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"Boston Detective Jane Rizzoli is on the case of a big game hunter found dead in his apartment, alone with the body of a beautiful white snow leopard he had recently been commissioned to procure and stuff for a high-profile museum in the area. Medical examiner Maura Isles connects the case to a number of seemingly unrelated deaths where the victims have all been found hanging upside down, the hallmark of a leopard's kill. Rizzoli follows the puzzling...
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2022.
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Nelson, investigating a series of murder-suicides he has connected to an archaeological discovery--and to Ruth's seemingly sweet new neighbor, Zoe--he enlists Ruth's help until she, Zoe, and Kate go missing and he is left scrambling to find them before it's too late.
4) Wolf hunt
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Remy Boudreaux is back in his hometown, New Orleans. He's there with three of his fellow Dallas SWAT officers for a week of training with the NOLA PD. On the eve of a tropical storm, Remy and his buddies prowl the French Quarter. One tantalizing scent captures Remy's senses, forcing him to follow until he is face to face with Triana Bellamy his beautiful high school crush. After reconnecting, Remy and Triana are close very. Remy struggles to keep...
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Theresa MacLean novels volume 2
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English
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Jillian Perry has been found dead in the woods, leaving behind a husband of three weeks and a young daughter. The police can't determine how she died--but forensic investigator Theresa MacLean suspects foul play. To complicate matters, a former boyfriend of Jillian's unexpectedly petitions for custody of the daughter. Obsessed with Jillian, he also suspects that Jillian was murdered, and now he and Theresa believe Jillian's daughter may be in danger...
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2013.
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After an old university friend and fellow archeologist is murdered, forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway travels to Lancashire to examine the bones he found, which reveal a shocking fact about King Arthur, and discovers a campus living in fear of a sinister right-wing group called the White Hand.
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"There's nothing Ruth Galloway hates more than amateur archaeologists, but when a group of them stumble upon Bronze Age artifacts alongside a dead body, she finds herself thrust into their midst-and into the crosshairs of a string of murders circling ever closer"--
8) Takeover
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Theresa MacLean novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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What initially appears to be a bank heist turns into something far more complex and deadly. When forensic scientist Theresa MacLean seizes the opportunity to trade places with the city's best hostage negotiator, she must decide what she is willing to sacrifice in order to save the lives of innocent people as well as her own.
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Wrapping up a normal day at the office, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and then flees, only to be murdered minutes later on a busy Manhattan street. Who was the woman? Where did the baby come from? Kieran can't stop thinking about the child and the victim, so her boyfriend, Craig Frasier, does what any good special agent boyfriend would do--he gets the FBI involved. And asks...
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When a perfectly preserved "mummy" is discovered in the dusty basement of Boston's Crispin Museum and an archaeologist turns up missing, medical examiner Maura Isles and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli have precious little time to derail the Archaeology Killer before he adds another chilling piece to his monstrous collection.
11) The deepest kill
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Locard Institute volume 3
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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When the pregnant daughter of software pioneer Martin Post, the third richest man in America, is murdered, expert forensic analysts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies, called in to investigate, are drawn into the Posts' increasingly dangerous family dynamic to determine who--and what--is at the heart of the crime.
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Theresa MacLean novels volume 4
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Called in to investigate the brutal murder of a local attorney whose body was found in the Ritz-Carlton, the hotel where her daughter is working for the summer, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean must unravel the clues to stop a killer.
13) Red flags
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Kensington Publishing Corp
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2022.
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English
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D.C. crime scene analyst Dr. Ellie Barr and pathologist Dr. Rachael Davies, former adversaries-turned-allies, must work together to find a missing baby, the child of a Washington power couple, in a kidnapping linked to a lobbying effort to loosen regulations on a billion-dollar gaming empire.
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Severn House
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2013.
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English
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Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is puzzled by the questionable death of a female construction worker at a Cleveland building site. A witness to the death a young girl nicknamed Ghost may be able to help. Ghost says the woman was pushed by someone she can only identify as the Shadow Man. Soon Theresa finds herself in a race against time to protect Ghost from an unknown killer before he is able to find the little girl and silence her for good.
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Inside the walls of Indiana's elite Westmont Preparatory High School, expectations run high and rules are strictly enforced. But in the woods beyond the manicured campus and playing fields sits an abandoned boarding house that is infamous among Westmont's students as a late-night hangout. Here, only one rule applies: don't let your candle go out--unless you want the Man in the Mirror to find you.... One year ago, two students were killed there in...
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In the murky shadows of an alley lies a female{u2019}s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, her head nearly severed. Two strands of silver hair--not human--cling to her body. They are Rizzoli{u2019}s only clues, but they{u2019}re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make the startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel.
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Theresa MacLean novels volume 7
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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When a deskman is murdered at the ME's office, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean investigates, finding a link to the death of another co-worker ten years before, and to solve the case, she must uncover what really happened a decade ago.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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From mud tracks on a quiet country road to dirt specks on the soles of walking boots, forensic ecologist Patricia Wiltshire uses her decades of scientific expertise to find often-overlooked clues left behind by criminal activity. She detects evidence and eliminates hypotheses armed with little more than a microscope, eventually developing a compelling thesis of the who, what, how, and when of a crime. Wiltshire's remarkable accuracy has made her one...
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Harlequin intrigue volume 2078
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Catching serial killers is her specialty -- until one follows her home. Attacked and left with a partial heart-shaped symbol carved into her chest, forensic investigator Lena Love finds her latest hunt has become personal. But leaving LA to return to her hometown comes with its own danger -- like detective David Hudson, the love she left behind. And soon sparks fly, even as Lena is targeted and stalked, and bodies -- all marked with the killer's signature...
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