Forensics

If you like Patricia Cornwell, or CSI, you may also like these authors.

Kathy Reichs

Reichs authors the "Temperance Brennan" series, featuring a forensic anthropologist with mysteries set in various locales, including Montreal and South Carolina.

Aaron Elkins

Gideon Oliver, the "bone" doctor, is a crime solving professor in this Edgar-award winning series. These are relatively "cozy" mysteries.

Karin Slaughter

The Sara Linton novels feature a doctor as a coroner and the chief of police as her significant other. They have some fairly graphic violence.

Alane Ferguson

These are aimed at young adults, with a teenage protagonist, but they are well-done mysteries for adults to read as well.

Jefferson Bass

The Body Farm books are written by the actual professor who established the famous Tennessee facility to study dead bodies.

Iris Johansen

The "Eve Duncan" stories have Duncan, who reconstructs faces from skulls, involved in a wide variety of suspenseful situations as she searches for the body of her daughter, who disappeared years ago.