forensic anthropologists

A forensic anthropologist and human anatomist recounts her life stories to explain how a person's life history is revealed through their bones.

Text and color illustrations explore what it takes to be a forensic anthropologist.

Dr. Bill Brockton has been called in on a seemingly routine case, to exhume a body and obtain a bone sample for a DNA paternity test. But when the coffin is opened, Brockton and his colleagues, including his graduate assistant Miranda Lovelady, are stunned to see that the corpse has been horribly violated.

Diane Fallon is out of a job when the new mayor appoints one of his own friends as head of the crime lab, but when both the mayor and her replacement are murdered, Diane is pulled back on the job and into a web of corruption that threatens everyone in the town of Rosewood, Georgia, including her.

John Lowry was declared dead in 1968-the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowing in Hemmingford Quebec. The corpse is later identified as John Lowry. It's up to Tempe to discover who the really John Lowry is.

Forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon is shocked when Clymene O'Riley, a woman Diane helped put behind bars for her husband's murder, tells Diane that one of the prison guards is a serial killer's next target, but when Clymene escapes from prison, Diane becomes the prime suspect in a bloody murder and a vicious killer's next intended victim.

Dr. Bill Brockton teams up with a local librarian to investigate a possible link between the murder of a retired scientist, high levels of radiation detected in a number of Oak Ridge residents, and the Manhattan Project.

Gideon Oliver, a professor of forensic anthropology who has become known as the Skeleton Detective, finds his much-anticipated vacation in Italy interrupted when he is asked to determine whether the bones unearthed from a construction site are those of Achille, the kidnapped son of Gideon's host.

Antropologist Bill Brockton is called to a cave in East Tennesse when a thirty-year-old corpse, preserved into an almost perfect mummy, is discovered, and soon Bill finds himself pulled into a local feud and an ecological mystery that is baffling scientists.

After Dr. David Hunter, a forensic anthropologist travels to a remote island to inspect a puzzling set of remains, he learns that a pile of burned bones of a woman are located in an undamaged area. Hunter believes she had been brutally murdered.