Women Forensics

Coroner Martha Gunn is among the first to be called to the scene when a man's body is found in a small cottage fronting the river. Floating face-down in the rising water, it appears to have been raised from the cellar by the flood.

When her daughter, Rachael, working a summer job at the Ritz-Carlton, calls Cleveland forensic scientist Theresa MacLean to say a murder has just occurred at the hotel, Theresa knows she's stepping into a forensic mess. A local criminal-defense attorney has been bound and beaten to death. The victim was attending a convention for criminal-defense attorneys, which means the list of suspects could stretch a mile long.

Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman has finally found a place to belong. As the medical examiner for the San Francisco Police Department, working alongside homicide detective Hal Harris, she uncovers the tales the dead can't tell about their final moments. It is a job that gives her purpose—and a safe haven from her former life at the hands of an abusive husband. Although it's been seven years since she escaped that ordeal, she still checks over her shoulder to make sure no one is behind her.

Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime-scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown.

Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members. After World War II, Sydney experienced a crime wave that was chillingly calculated. Discontent mixed with despair, greed with callous disregard. Women who had lost their wartime freedoms headed back into the kitchen with sinister intent and the household poison thallium, normally used to kill rats, was repurposed to kill husbands and other inconvenient family members.

Alan just watched his beautiful girlfriend die from testing an unstable drug. It looks like this drug is still in the process of being released by a renegade doctor, so Alan teams up with an old friend, Ryan, to stop the dangers of the drug from hurting other people. Alan's journey leads him to some new discoveries and some decisions that may leave him in need of a cure himself. When Alan and Ryan team up with an unlikely ally, how far will they go to protect people from this dangerous drug? What more dangers are they going to uncover?

Berlin, Treptowers, BKA-Einheit "Extremdelikte": Ein Anruf reißt Rechtsmedizinerin Sabine Yao jäh aus ihrem Arbeitsalltag im Sektionssaal. Ihre seit Tagen verschollene Tante wurde im Umland von Kiel tot aufgefunden. Die Kollegen in der Kieler Rechtsmedizin, darunter auch Yaos ehemaliger Lebenspartner, gehen von einem unnatürlichen Tod aus. Yaos Chef, Professor Paul Herzfeld, führt einige Telefonate mit der Kieler Staatsanwaltschaft, um ihr sehr unbürokratisch Akteneinsicht in den Todesfall zu gewähren.

What begins as a bad date for Wendy turns into a nightmare for her brother-in-law and his girlfriend. The lead detective doesn't believe Wendy and her sister Jennifer when they tell their story to the police. The emails have vanished after being opened, and there's so much blood no one could survive losing that much. Their story reaffirms his thinking that Hunter is guilty. It's up to Wendy, Jennifer, and their mother to find Steven and free Valerie before it's too late.

Agent Jo Danning is trapped inside a nightmare, constrained by a coma, while her friends attempt to solve a murder mystery at a local hospital. In this third Jo Danning short story, Jo explores the connection between faith and proof. She also obtains a new sidekick along the way. Jo attempts to drop clues for her friends, but her time is running out, as a doctor plots her real-life death.