David Caves

After violence comes the silence of the dead, yielding gruesome evidence to a formidable team of forensic pathologists and scientists.

Former colleague Sam Ryan calls upon the team after the health secretary is assassinated, but as the investigation progresses, Nikki fears uncovering the truth will put the entire Lyell team in danger. Meanwhile, murders continue to happen, and each case seems to carry with it a secret from each team member's past.

When a new crime scene looks like the carbon copy of a case from her past, forensic pathologist Dr. Nikki Alexander hunts for clues to the connection before the evidence gets too hot to handle. Join Nikki and her London colleagues, Doctors Thomas Chamberlain, and Jack Hodgson, in their better-late-than-never efforts to pry secrets from victims2 remains and catch the killers. Did a gunman target a family of picnickers on purpose, or shoot at random?...

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.

What do a people-smuggler, a photogenic young schoolteacher, a missing teenager, and a father/son pair have in common? Alas, their remains are the most reliable witnesses of how they died, and, if they were murdered, who killed them. Following grisly clues, Dr. Nikki Alexander and her team of forensic pathologists delve into London2s illegal immigrant community, a toxic media storm, families camped on a riverbank, a shocking car accident and international...