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Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
Here the author, a physician and reporter 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. She reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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?
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Even London University2s dedicated team of forensic pathologists may not always uncover the deadly truth in time to catch sex-traffickers, serial killers, suburban murderers, rogue prison officers, and psychotic manipulators. Harry, Leo, and Nikki use every resource they have, from DNA and computer graphic imaging to criminal profiling and facial reconstruction, often putting their lives at risk as they work to identify victims and discover how they...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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?
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Led by pathologist Dr Nikki Alexander and forensic scientist Jack Hodgson, no case is ever the same for the investigators. A serial killer resurfaces, death stalks a campus, a mummified woman rocks a community, bodies are found entombed underground and deep fakes obscure the truth. As the team use their expertise to unlock the mysterious deaths and help police solve some of their most chilling cases, they are tested to their very limits.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A medical examiner reveals facts about how people harm their bodies and what to do to live better and longer, from how being too fat or too thin can kill, to the consequences of smoking, to stupid car mistakes that can turn the highway into a death trap.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
While Cambridge police detectives interview witnesses who may or may not tell the truth, 'Sam' extracts revealing truths from calcified bones, decomposed and charred bodies, tell-tale bruises and overlooked fingerprints. Brace yourself for twists and turns in four gripping episodes: the suspicious drowning of a six-year-old girl, the apparently ritual killing of a young man, a death in police custody, and the fiery murder of a refugee's business partner....
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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?...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Taking readers inside the nation's preeminent Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the author, who spent ten years with the Maryland OCME, explores the year-by-year story of a pioneer in the field of forensic medicine that is now chronically in crisis.
"Equipped with a journalist's eye, a paramedic's experience and a sardonic wit, Bruce Goldfarb spent ten years with Maryland's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where every sudden or unattended...
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