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"The Body Farm novels have become bestsellers because of their attention to the fine details of forensics combined with great plot lines."
—Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
The latest Body Farm novel from New York Times bestseller Jefferson Bass, The Bone Thief is a must for fans of Patricia Cornwell and TV's C.S.I. The hero of four previous thrillers—Carved in Bone, The Devil's Bones, Flesh and Bone, and Bones
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Body Farm founder Dr. Bill Brockton and his graduate assistant, Miranda Lovelady, are called to investigate a body discovered in Oak Ridge, a town better known as the home of the atomic bomb during World War II. The forensic detectives identify the victim as Dr. Leonard Novak, a renowned physicist and designer of a plutonium reactor integral to the Manhatten Project. They also discover that he died from a searing dose of radioactivity. Brockton enlists...
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Academy Chicago Publishers
Pub. Date
1995.
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English
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This is a look at Chernobyl from a unique perspective. The reports of atrocities, epidemics, tryanny and despair blend with a most unusual travelogue, including close relationships and KGB intrigue. The author's very simple, very human voice alternately exudes humor and horror. The total effect is of a down-to-earth person peering into an abyss of death and corruption.
4) Aftertime
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Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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A young woman's terror on learning that she has been exposed to radiation from a nuclear accident. She tries to overcome it by denying reality, but miscarriage follows miscarriage and suicide seems the only solution. By a German writer.
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Nadia's memories of her father are not happy ones. An angry, secretive man, he died when she was thirteen, leaving his past shrouded in mystery. When a stranger claims to have known her father during his early years in Eastern Europe, she agrees to meet--only to watch the man shot dead on a city sidewalk. With his last breath, he whispers a cryptic clue, one that will propel Nadia on a high-stakes treasure hunt from New York to her ancestral homeland...
