Lisa Black
1) Takeover
Author
Series
Theresa MacLean mystery volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gutsy forensic investigator is caught between a gruesome murder and a high stakes bank heist in this crime thriller series debut.
Early one Thursday morning, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is called to the scene of a gruesome murder. A powerful executive was beaten to death in front of his own house in suburban Cleveland. It appears to be another grim day at the office for Theresa. But what unfolds during the next eight hours is unlike...
Early one Thursday morning, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is called to the scene of a gruesome murder. A powerful executive was beaten to death in front of his own house in suburban Cleveland. It appears to be another grim day at the office for Theresa. But what unfolds during the next eight hours is unlike...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
From a New York Times–bestselling author, "this fast-paced thriller features a lot of detailed forensics with a rip-roaring ending" (Publishers Weekly).
Eight months ago, forensic investigator Theresa MacLean lost her fiancé in a bank robbery gone wrong, and she's had trouble concentrating on her work ever since. But when she investigates the death of a young mother that may have consequences for an innocent child, her...
Eight months ago, forensic investigator Theresa MacLean lost her fiancé in a bank robbery gone wrong, and she's had trouble concentrating on her work ever since. But when she investigates the death of a young mother that may have consequences for an innocent child, her...
3) Blunt impact
Author
Series
Theresa MacLean mystery volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean's investigation into the suspicious death of a female construction worker turns urgent when a young witness to the crime turns up and must be protected from the unknown killer.
4) Red flags
Author
Series
Locard Institute thriller volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Gardiner and Renner volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Three days before a key election, U.S. Senator Diane Cragin is electrocuted on her own doorstep - a shocking twist in an already brutal political race. Cragin's chief of staff is quick to blame rival Joey Green, a city development director who's had his hand in every till in town for over twenty years. Maggie and Jack have their own theories, especially after discovering a fortune in cash in the senator's safe. But as they follow the money through...
6) Unpunished
Author
Series
Gardiner and Renner volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Gardiner, a forensic expert who studies the dead, and Jack Renner, a homicide cop who stalks the living, form an uneasy partnership to solve a series of murders in this powerful thriller by Lisa Black.
Author
Series
Gardiner and Renner volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Cleveland Police Department forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner investigates a female teenaged victim that no one has reported missing, and a killer with a unique sense of justice.
Author
Series
Gardiner and Renner volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Forensics expert Maggie Gardiner is swept up in a dangerous web of lies when detective Jack Renner's investigation into a university student's death violently converges with a suspicious overdose case being overseen by Maggie's homicide detective ex."--Publisher.
9) Perish
Author
Series
Gardiner and Renner volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The scene of the crime is lavish but gruesome. In a luxurious mansion on the outskirts of Cleveland, a woman's body lies gutted in a pool of blood on the marble floor. The victim is Joanna Moorehouse, founder of Sterling Financial. The killer could be any one of her associates. Only Maggie recognizes the blood-soaked handiwork of a killer who has committed the most heinous of crimes--and will continue killing until he is stopped. Burdened with unbearable...
Author
Series
Gardiner and Renner volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Cleveland forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and her partner, Jack Renner, investigate after two young people turn up dead at a secure facility for juvenile offenders.
Rachael Donahue was raised in foster homes, and has been living at Firebird, a secure facility for juvenile offenders in Cleveland. When her body is discovered at the bottom of a stairwell, there's evidence the girl may have been involved with a much older man. Other children are also...
11) What harms you
Author
Series
Locard Institute thriller volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Locard Institute is a state-of-the-art forensic research center where experts from around the world come together to confront and solve the world's most challenging and perplexing crimes. When Dr. Ellie Carr arrives for her first day as an instructor at the prestigious facility, the buildings glimmer amid the brilliant fall foliage on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. But within hours a colleague, Dr. Barbara Wright, is found dead on the floor...
Author
Series
Theresa MacLean mystery volume 6
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Theresa MacLean, barely escaping an explosion meant to kill her, investigates the dark secrets in a murdered cop's past, a situation complicated by her relationships with a local business tycoon and the mysterious David Madison.
13) Defensive wounds
Author
Series
Theresa MacLean mystery volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When Marie Corrigan, a Cleveland defense attorney with a history of falsifying evidence and no shortage of enemies, is found dead in the presidential suite at the Ritz-Carlton, most people would agree that she had it coming. Forensic investigator Theresa MacLean is summoned to the crime scene, but even before she enters the room she knows that she's walking into a forensic nightmare because crime scenes at hotels, even the most luxurious, are teeming...
14) Trail of blood
Author
Series
Theresa MacLean mystery volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean investigates a crime spree from Cleveland's past when the bodies of recent murder victims show up bearing the hallmarks of an uncaught serial killer who had terrorized the city seventy-five years prior.
15) The deepest kill
Author
Series
Locard Institute thriller volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
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.