Tim Downs
Author
Series
Bug man novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Some secrets just won't stay buried. When strange bones surface on a U.S. senator's property, the FBI enlists forensic entomologist Nick Polchak to investigate the forgotten graveyard. Polchak's orders are simple: figure out the mess.
Author
Series
Bug man novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Downs's third thriller to feature forensic entomologist Nick Bug Man Polchak (after 2004's Chop Shop) stands out from the pack of CSI-inspired mysteries with its quirky hero and creative handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Polchak-an expert in using bugs to deduce the time and circumstances of death-is a member of DMORT, the disaster mortuary operational response team, used by FEMA to assist with mass casualties. As the deadly hurricane nears...
3) Plague maker
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
July Fourth: New York City Hundreds of thousands line the banks of the East and Hudson Rivers awaiting the nation's largest fireworks display. Soon the sky will explode in cascading showers of silver and gold. Everywhere, faces will turn skyward in wide-eyed wonder. Then the sky will grow dark again-but it will not be empty. The air will be filled with clouds of smoke and specks of debris will rain down everywhere. Some will pick bits of paper from...
Author
Pub. Date
p2010
Description
From award-winning author Tim Downs comes this warmhearted story of mistaken identity and unlikely redemption that will have you both laughing and looking at life from a higher perspective.
It's a brilliant plan, if Kemp McAvoy says so himself-and Kemp never hesitates to point out his own brilliance. Kemp is a night nurse for a beautiful but aging movie star in a medically induced coma. And with the help of her agent and a struggling young publisher,...
Author
Series
Bug man novels volume 5
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
While investigating the murder of an organic farmer in North Carolina, Dr. Nick Polchack finds an infestation of diseased insects, a discovery that leads him to an agricultural scheme to cripple the U.S.'s ethanol production.
Author
Series
Bug man novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
In a remote county of North Carolina, thirty-year-old Kathryn Guilford receives the news that her long-time friend and one-time suitor is dead. The authorities declare the death as a suicide, but Kathryn is not convinced. In desperation she turns to Dr. Nick Polchak, the Bug Man, to help her learn the truth-and she is introduced to a mysterious world of blood-seeking flies and flesh-eating beetles. But there's a problem...Kathryn Guilford has a...
Author
Series
Bug man novels volume 6
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Forensic entomologist Nick Polchak lives in a world of maggots and blow flies and decomposing bodies. No wonder he's still single. But Nick has finally found a woman as strange as he is-dog trainer Alena Savard, a woman who can seemingly talk to animals, a person so odd and reclusive that some think she must be a witch. It was a match made in heaven. Nick and Alena are scheduled to be married on Saturday-but there's one small problem. ...
Author
Series
Bug man novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2004
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
An autopsy room is where secrets are revealed...or buried. Young Dr. Riley McKay has worked hard toward her career in pathology-and now she has secured a fellowship at the renowned Allegheny County Coroner's Office in Pittsburgh. But her promising future is threatened when suspicious activities incriminate her supervising pathologist, Dr. Nathan Lassiter. Bungled autopsies, concealed evidence, and unexplained wounds accumulate at an alarming rate....
Author
Pub. Date
©2003
Description
Marriages are under increasing strain these days, with over half of them ending in divorce. Conflict is seen as grounds to end a marriage, rather than an opportunity to grow closer to each other and to God. The Seven Conflicts is an excellent resource for equipping couples to learn to understand the true nature of their conflicts and deal with them in a way that will actually help their marital fulfillment. Couples will learn to identify their mutual...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The first-hand account of a Vietnamese refugee who now lives the American dream. Where the Wind Leads is the remarkable account of Vinh Chung and his refugee family's daring escape from communist oppression for the chance of a better life in America. It's a story of personal sacrifice, redemption, endurance against almost insurmountable odds, and what it truly means to be American. Vinh Chung was born in South Vietnam, just eight months after it fell...