Sam is now Professor Ryan, teaching pathology at London University but she still consults on unusual cases which demand her highly developed professional skills and tenacity. A helicopter crash, a gangland killing and a cinema fire are a few of the files that draw her in while she also finds the line between passion and professionalism blurring.

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 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?

"Dr. Nikki Alexander and the team at the Lyell Centre must solve five more thrilling mysteries. A body in the concrete pillar of a car park. A downed plane. Scientific research gone wrong. The cases that end up at the Lyell Centre are rarely straightforward. Initial suspicions are challenged as the evidence mounts, and Nikki and the team must work harder than ever to find the truth"--Container.

Follow the clues in these further installments of the crime investigation work of forensic pathologists Dr. Harry Cunningham and Dr. Nikki Alexander and their teams.

After violence comes the silence of the dead, yielding gruesome evidence to a formidable team of forensic pathologists and scientists. Dr. Samantha Ryan, London University professor, and her colleagues take on four grisly cases.

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...

"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. Nikki and her London colleagues, Doctors Thomas Chamberlain and Jack Hodgson, [use] their better-late-than-never efforts to pry secrets from victims' remains and catch the killers. Did a gunman target a family of picnickers on purpose, or shoot at random?...

Dead bodies speak the shocking truth to London University's team of forensic pathologists. A horrific murder may be more than Nikki can bear. A gruesome case in Sheffield puts a strain on Leo's relationship with Janet. And the death of a pregnant prostitute in Budapest holds dire consequences for Harry and his lover, Anna. How to explain the second bullet in the skull of an apparent suicide victim who witnessed a murder in Afghanistan?

Forensic pathologist Dr. Nariman's car accidentally injures a motorcyclist's eight-year-old son. He offers to take the child to a clinic, but the father refuses his help and his money. A few days later, in the hospital where he works, Dr. Nariman learns that the boy has died under suspicious circumstances. His existential dilemma: is he responsible for the death, or did the child die of another cause, as the autopsy suggests? It's a study in ethical...

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...