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Atria Books
Language
English
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A teenager with Asperger's syndrome-- smart, quirky, with a passion for crime scene analysis--winds up on trial for murder
Teenager Jacob Hunt has Asperger's syndrome. A forensic science wizard, he follows his scanner to show up at crime scenes and give law enforcement officials his advice. But when his tutor is found dead, he becomes a suspect. Suddenly, his Asperger's traits--not looking people in the eye, tics and twitches--look more like guilt...
3) Shutter
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases-she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won't let...
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Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Two fiery deaths have young lawyer Daniel Pitt and his scientist friend Miriam fford Croft racing to solve a forensic crisis in an explosive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Triple Jeopardy. When a desperate woman comes to Daniel seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man's innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and setting a fire to conceal the body, but Daniel is sure that science...
5) At risk
Author
Series
Win Garano novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor wants to use some radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder. The result? A new round of violence
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In the 1890's, Detective William Murdoch adopts modern techniques like 'finger marks' and forensics to track Toronto's most sinister killers. Though derided by his skeptical boss, Murdoch finds friends and allies in a lovely pathologist and an eager-to-learn constable. Along the way they cross paths with some of the era's most famous figures, including Nikola Tesla, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Prince Alfred
Author
Series
Cyrus Haven novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
A girl is found hiding in a secret room in a house being renovated after a terrible crime. For weeks, she has survived by sneaking out at night, stealing food for herself and two dogs that are kept in the garden. The nurses at the hospital where she is taken call her "Angel Face" because she won't tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from. Maybe she is 12, maybe 15, or somewhere in between. She doesn't appear on any missing person's...
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English
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"Innocence Project attorney M. Chris Fabricant presents an insider's journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science plays in maintaining the status quo. "No one in America will ever know the number of innocent people convicted, sent to prison, and even executed because of the flood of rotten forensics and bogus scientific opinions presented to juries. In this intriguing and beautifully crafted book, Innocence...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Cutting-edge Victorian science meets cunningly plotted mystery in this award-winning Canadian TV drama. William Murdoch is a detective in Toronto in 1895, using new forensic techniques like fingerprinting and psychological profiling. He crosses paths with famous figures including Arthur Conan Doyle, and H. G. Wells
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
At the dawn of the 20th century, Detective William Murdoch solves Toronto₂s trickiest cases with scientific insight and ingenuity in this award-winning mystery series. From flying early aircraft to infiltrating nudist communities, consulting with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to helping a young Winston Churchill, Murdoch has always been a man ahead of his time. In Season Six, he also confronts legal and social challenges to be with his love, pathologist-turned-psychiatrist...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Winningly clever and playful, this acclaimed Canadian series returns with new mysteries set in Edwardian-era Toronto. In Season Nine, Detective William Murdoch and his wife, Dr. Julia Ogden, plan their dream home; Constable Crabtree faces dire consequences for his decisions; and Dr. Emily Grace experiences a personal crisis. Meanwhile, Inspector Brackenreid endures an eccentric houseguest, and a new morgue cleaner turned lab attendant brings fresh...
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Series
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Are you ready to do some detective work? In this book you'll crime-solve your way through some seriously puzzling made-up mysteries to explore the field of Forensic Science-the study of evidence to help solve crimes. You'll analyze stains on a computer keyboard, dust for fingerprints, examine bite marks, dig up evidence, and much, much more. Then you'll use what you've learned to ID the suspect. Think you have what it takes to crack the case?"...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
They are among the most infamous home movies ever made. But do these humble 8-millimeter films reveal the whole story of John F. Kennedy's assassination? National Geographic reveals these home movies as never before, restored to a state more pristine than the day they were exposed to the Dallas sunshine of November 22nd, 1963. Join a team of pioneering investigators as they bring the home movies to life and expose the hidden secrets of the crime of...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder. For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no American book that tells this remarkable story--in which Conan Doyle becomes a real-life detective on an actual murder case. In Conan Doyle for the Defense, Margalit...
Series
Murdoch Mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Detective Murdoch continues his inventive detective work with Ogden's unflinching support even after an investigation leads him to a family member that he never knew about.
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