Nonfiction

• Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers by Michael Baden and Marion Roach
• Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
• DNA Fingerprinting: The Ultimate Identity by Ron Fridell
• Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science by Colin Beavan
• Hidden Evidence: 40 True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them by David Owen
• Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health by Nicholas Wade
• Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes by Steve Olson
• Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman
• Police Lab: How Forensic Science Tracks Down and Convicts Criminals by David Owen
• The Bone Detectives: How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the Dead by Donna Jackson
• The Forensic Science of C.S.I. by Katherine Ramsland
• The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
• The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities by Philip Kitcher
• Threads of Evidence: Using Forensic Science to Solve Crimes by Herma Silverstein


Fiction
 

• All That Remains by Patricia Cornwell
• Anil's Ghost by Ondaatje
• Cobra Event by Richard Preston
• Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
• Deja Dead by Kathleen Reichs
• The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
• The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whittaker by Cynthia De Felice (an easier read)
• The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King


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