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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 30
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The author provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina-- and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous...
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Things have changed for Doctor Lucien Blake. His co-conspirator Lawson has been fired from Ballarat, his emotional embrace with Jean has changed life in the house and a new arrival leaves his tenure under threat. But that's the least of his troubles when he uncovers a dark story behind his mother's death. In this eight-part series return, the wonderfully maverick Doctor Blake is pushed to his limits to find the truth behind a range of intriguing murders...
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[2014]
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Baffled police turn to forensic pathologists Nikki Alexander, Jack Hodgson and Thomas Chamberlain for help. What's the missing link between a poisoned autistic boy and a football celebrity caught on a sex tape? If a framed ex-soldier didn't kill two boys, who did? How to explain the buried remains of a lap dancer in rural Scotland and the body of a recently pregnant Northern Irish teenager, found in a suitcase? Things get personal for Jack when his...
5) Coroner
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Pub. Date
c1983
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America's most controversial medical examiner explores the unanswered questions surrounding the deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Sharon Tate, Janis Joplin, William Holden, Natalie Wood, John Belushi, and many of his other important cases Now, for the first time, Dr. Noguchi recounts his colorful and stormy career, explains his innovative techniques, and reveals the full story behind his most fascinating investigations. In Coroner, Dr....
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Sam is now Professor Ryan, teaching pathology at London University. But still available for consultation on unusual cases which demand her highly developed professional skills and tenacity. A helicopter crash, a gangland killing and a cinema fire also occupy Sam's attention.
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Sam is now Professor Ryan, teaching pathology at London University. However, she is still available for consultation on unusual cases which demand her highly developed professional skills and tenacity. A helicopter crash, a gangland killing and a cinema fire also occupy Sam's attention.
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[2020]
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Dr. Nikki Alexander and the team at the Lyell Centre must solve five more thrilling mysteries in this award-winning crime drama. A body in the concrete pillar of a car park. A downed plane. Scientific research has gone wrong. The cases that end up at the Lyell Centre are rarely straightforward. Initial suspicions are challenged as the evidence mounts, and Nikki and the team must work harder than ever to find the truth.
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Pub. Date
[2001]
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Visit a class where students blow mouthfuls of their own blood onto one another in order to better understand blood-spatter patterns. Attend a workshop studying the effects of temperature and humidity on the life cycle of maggots populating a corpse. Learn how much of someone's history of drug use can be detected in a single strand of hair. Wander the aisles at the annual conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, where booths display...
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Dead bodies speak the shocking truth to London University's team of forensic pathologists. A horrific murder may be more than Nikki can bear. A gruesome case in Sheffield puts a strain on Leo's relationship with Janet. And the death of a pregnant prostitute in Budapest holds dire consequences for Harry and his lover, Anna. How to explain the second bullet in the skull of an apparent suicide victim who witnessed a murder in Afghanistan?
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Murderous truths hide in human remains scrutinized by a closely knit team of forensic pathologists at London University. How can the good doctors explain stab marks on a teenager who fell to what looked like her accidental death? The missing face on the dumped body of a former TV journalist? The exact DNA match of two murder victims? Grim clues keep viewers guessing in six two-part episodes of this long-running, award-winning BBC crime drama.
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
First on the scene after an RAF helicopter crashes into a detention center for asylum seekers, forensic pathologists Dr. Harry Cunningham and Dr. Nikki Alexander detect a cover-up at the Ministry of Defense. How can someone believe in justice when young boys die in ritual killings, the patients of a prominent surgeon have an unusually high fatality rate, victims are murdered despite police protection, and the person thought to help solve the murder...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Forensic pathologist Professor Sam Ryan has always delved into the past lives of the corpse she examines. But the discovery of her long-lost son confirms that that it's time to confront her own past, and her future, and move on. Harry and Leo are her obvious successors, but what will they make of new recruit Nikki Alexander?
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
The crackling sexual currents in London University's forensic pathology department flow in new directions in five gripping, two-part episodes of the award-winning BBC crime drama. Will Harry's affair with a former colleague cloud his judgment when her husband is murdered? Will Nikki's affair with a South African businessman keep her in Cape Town? Tangled passions and deceit end in a pool of blood for the wife of a wealthy banker, and in women's murders...
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