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1) A dying fall
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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After an old university friend and fellow archaeologist's murdered, forensic archaeologist 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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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 8
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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In the next Ruth Galloway mystery, a vision of the Virgin Mary foreshadows a string of cold-blooded murders, revealing a dark current of religious fanaticism in an old medieval town.
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 9
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Norwich is riddled with old chalk-mining tunnels, but no one's sure exactly how many. When Ruth is called in to investigate a set of human remains found in one of them, she notices the bones are almost translucent, a sign they were boiled soon after death. Once more, she finds herself at the helm of a murder investigation. Meanwhile, DCI Nelson is hunting for a missing homeless woman, Barbara, who he hears has gone "underground." Could she have disappeared...
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 10
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway and DI Nelson have their summer vacations horribly disrupted by a murder in a medieval Italian town where dark secrets are buried as deep as bones.
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 4
Language
English
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When a curator is found murdered, Ruth Galloway and Detective Inspector Nelson track down links between the murder, Aborigine skulls, and a drug-smuggling operation that forces Ruth to question her loyalties.
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Temperance Brennan volume 17
Language
English
Description
"Unexpectedly called in to the Charlotte PD's Cold Case Unit, Dr. Temperance Brennan wonders why she's been asked to meet with a homicide cop who's a long way from his own jurisdiction. The shocking answer: Two child murders, separated by thousands of miles, have one thing in common--the killer. Years ago, Anique Pomerleau kidnapped and murdered a string of girls in Canada, then narrowly eluded capture. It was a devastating defeat for her pursuers,...
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 11
Language
English
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DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters. They are anonymous, yet reminiscent of ones he has received in the past, from the person who drew him into a case that's haunted him for years. At the same time, Ruth receives a letter purporting to be from that very same person--her former mentor, and the reason she first started working with Nelson. But the author of those letters is dead. Or is he? The past is reaching out for Ruth and Nelson,...
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Temperance Brennan volume 22
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Young men -- tourists -- have been disappearing on the islands of Turks and Caicos for years. Seven years ago, the first victim was found in a strange location with both hands cut off; the other visitors vanished without a trace. But, recently, tantalizing leads have emerged and only Tempe can unravel them. Maddeningly, the victims seem to have nothing in common-other than the strange locations where their bodies are eventually found, and the fact...
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 7
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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The macabre discovery of a downed WWII plane with the pilot's skeleton still inside leads Ruth and DCI Nelson to uncover a wealthy family's secrets in the seventh Ruth Galloway mystery. --Provided by publisher.
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Temperance Brennan volume 18
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In Speaking in Bones, the forensic anthropologist finds herself drawn into a world of dark secrets and dangerous beliefs, where good and evil blur.
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
"Forensic archeologist, Dr. Ruth Galloway is back--this time investigating a gruesome WWII war crime"--Provided by publisher.
12) The outcast dead
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Series
Ruth Galloway mystery volume 6
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Every year a ceremony is held in Norwich for the bodies in the paupers' graves: the Service for the Outcast Dead. Ruth has a particular interest in this year's proceedings. Her recent dig at Norwich Castle turned up the body of the notorious Mother Hook, who was hanged in 1867 for the murder of five children. Now Ruth is the reluctant star of the TV series Women Who Kill, working alongside the program's alluring history expert, Professor Chet Bruce....
13) Torn
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Series
LOST volume 4
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Forensic anthropologist Victoria Palmer has always been better with the dead than the living. Shutting down her emotions, she lets few people in. But then Victoria’s latest investigation takes her and agent Wade Monroe to Savannah, Georgia. Handsome, dangerous, and more than ready to play dirty on any case, Wade weakens Victoria’s aloofness with just one glance.
14) Stone cold heart
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Series
Tracers volume 13
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When abandoned human remains are found in a remote Texas gorge, Sara Lockhart, one of the nation's top forensic anthropologists, is drawn into an investigation that threatens to rock a small community to its very core.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Four stories starring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan include "First Bones," which reveals how she got her start in the lab, and "Bones on Ice," in which she must identify a mummified corpse found on Mount Everest.
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Temperance Brennan volume 16
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Charlotte police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane highway, Temperance Brennan fears the worst. The girl's body shows signs of foul play. Inside her purse police find the ID card of a prominent local businessman, John-Henry Story, who died in a horrific flea market fire months earlier. Was the girl an illegal immigrant turning tricks? Was she murdered? Tempe soon finds herself at the center of a conspiracy...
17) Freezing
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Language
English
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Introduces forensic anthropologists Jayne Hall and Steelie Lander, who,while running a non-profit missing persons identification resource center, place their lives on the line during an off-the-record case involving the discovery of dumped frozen body parts.
18) Cold, cold bones
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Series
Temperance Brennan volume 21
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. For a while, temporarily idle forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe's place one night for dinner, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball. GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine Monastery where an equally...
19) The bone code
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Series
Temperance Brennan volume 20
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A storm has hit South Carolina, dredging up crimes of the past. On the way to Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan receives a call from the Charleston coroner. During the storm, a medical waste container has washed up on the beach. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. Chillingly, Tempe recognizes many details as identical to...
20) Flash and bones
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Series
Temperance Brennan volume 14
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"A body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to Lowes Motor Speedway near Charlotte just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for race week. The next day, a NASCAR crew member shares with Tempe a devastating story. Twelve years earlier his sister, Cyndi Gamble, then a high school senior who wanted to be a professional racecar driver, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company with a group of right wing extremists known...
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