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Deputy Samantha Cody hopes to put a disturbing murder trial behind her and pursue professional boxing. When jurors begin dying and further killings resemble the convicted man's crimes, she must investigate amid religious agitation and growing panic in her desert town.

Samantha Cody's planned holiday at a friend's Colorado bed-and-breakfast is interrupted by a murder she witnesses. Further deaths and reports of a mysterious mountain creature draw her into an investigation involving an abandoned research laboratory and local corruption.

Drawing on questions submitted by mystery writers, physician D. P. Lyle explains medical and forensic issues encountered in crime fiction. Topics range from injuries and hospital practice to poisons, crime scenes, coroners, and laboratory work, organised as a reference for storytellers.

Lyle answers unusual medical and forensic questions gathered through his consulting work with novelists and television writers. The collection explores such subjects as survival, historical treatments, identifying remains, and interpreting physical evidence, helping writers assess the plausibility of fictional situations.

This reference explains forensic techniques, their development, and their uses in criminal investigations and fictional plots. Evidence collection, autopsies, fingerprints, bloodstains, and crime-scene reconstruction are illustrated through real cases, giving writers context for depicting investigative work accurately.

The murder of his friend Sheriff Mike Savage draws forensic expert Dub Walker into the hunt for a serial killer. As the killer eludes him, Dub discovers connections reaching beyond the crimes into military interests, medicine, greed, and corruption.

Dub Walker's search for a friend's missing daughter leads to a shallow grave and further bodies bearing evidence of sophisticated surgery. Following the equipment and expertise involved directs him toward a biomedical company and a disturbing abuse of medical knowledge.

Questions from crime writers form this collection of explanations about medicine and forensic science. Organised into five sections, it considers injuries, emergency treatment, biological evidence, and investigative procedures, providing context for writers seeking credible details for unusual fictional scenarios.

Dub Walker investigates the killing of a murderer whose victim's parents have disappeared, apparently abandoning their former lives. With help from an investigator and a reporter, he examines whether the evidence against the couple conceals other suspects and motives.

Part of the ABA Fundamentals series, this introduction surveys forensic science's principal disciplines, practical uses, and limitations. It explains commonly encountered techniques, including autopsies, DNA analysis, fingerprints, toxicology, and trace evidence, for readers navigating scientific evidence in legal practice.

Samantha Cody travels to help cardiac surgeon Lucy Wagner after a religious leader dies during an operation. Lucy's subsequent fainting spells and nightmares, alongside disturbing changes in her patients, force Samantha to investigate threats rooted in her friend's past.

Former baseball player and bar owner Jake Longly reluctantly accepts a surveillance assignment from his investigator father. When the woman he is watching is murdered, Jake, Nicole Jamison, and tech-savvy friend Pancake pursue an inquiry that crosses a Ukrainian mobster's interests.

Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison travel to New Orleans to help a movie producer after his leading actor wakes beside a murdered woman. With the actor unable to remember the killing, they investigate amid stalled filming and pressure from the victim's connections.

Former covert operatives Bobby Cain and Harper McCoy are hired to locate a retired general's missing granddaughter. Their search reaches a Tennessee lakeside town, where trafficking and serial murder bring them into conflict with a dangerous adversary on familiar territory.

A convicted serial killer insists that two murders he confessed to were committed by someone else, but refuses to identify which ones. Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison investigate the disputed crimes, facing evidence that appears to support the original convictions.

A violent drug dispute leaves a criminal wounded and an emergency physician kidnapped to treat him. Bobby Cain and Harper McCoy must track the fugitives through Tennessee's mountainous terrain before the doctor becomes expendable to his captors.

Pancake's investigation into a former classmate's divorce turns into a murder case when she and a companion are killed. Jake Longly's team searches for the truth behind killings that police suspect may be linked to a drug turf war.

Bobby Cain and Harper McCoy investigate the shooting of an ambassador's son in rural Tennessee. A woman's death suggests the return of a dormant serial killer, but an unexpected number associated with the victim raises questions about missing crimes and connections.

Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison's Orange County visit becomes an investigation when her television-reporter friend attracts an anonymous stalker. As harassment escalates, Jake brings in his father and Pancake to identify a predator skilled at concealing his trail.