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The doomsday key

a sigma force novel
2010
Commander Gray Pierce and his Sigma Force operatives investigate the murders of three individuals in different countries whose bodies were marked with a Druidic pagan cross and connect the crimes to an ancient artifact which can threaten the existence of mankind if it falls into the wrong hands.

The Black Dahlia

shattered dreams
2011
Describes the 1947 unsolved murder of aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, and discusses the criminal investigation.

Celebrity cases

2010
Provides accounts of criminal cases involving celebrities, including O.J. Simpson, Martha Stewart, Anna Nicole Smith, and others.

Blindsight

1993
Manhattan city forensic pathologist Laurie Montgomery battles to foil a plot of unimaginable evil in a distinguished New York hospital.

The angel of death

a forensic mystery
2008
Seventeen-year-old high school senior Cameryn Mahoney uses skills learned as assistant to her coroner father to try to unravel the mystery of a local teacher's gruesome death, while also awaiting a possible reunion with her long-missing mother.

Nightmare

2005
Emily is sent to a camp for underachievers where she discovers a murderer on the staff who might provide an explanation for her recurring nightmares.

The falconer's knot

a story of friars, flirtation and foul play
2008
Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.

L'?tranger

1997
Caught in the grip of forces he does not understand, a quiet, ordinary clerk in Algiers commits murder.

Murderous methods

using forensic science to solve lethal crimes
2005
Leading forensic scientist Mark Benecke examines the history of forensic science; the techniques and technology used to solve murder; the minds of serial killers and other murderers; and actual cases including the murder of O.J. Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole.

Isaac Asimov's Derec

the Robot City graphic novel
2004
Derec, stranded without memory in a city of robots, joins reluctantly with mystery woman Katherine in an effort to discover the truth about a murder they are accused of committing. Presented in graphic novel form.

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