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Emma Hunt's son Jacob, who has Asperger's syndrome and occasionally tries helping the police with his unique forensic analysis abilities, falls under suspicion when a murder occurs in town, reminding Emma of society's--and the legal system's--misunderstanding with regard to the behavioral cues associated with Asperger's.

Detective Inspector Lucia May investigates the case of Samuel Szajkowski, a new history teacher who gunned down three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himself, resisting her supervisor's pressure to make it an open-and-shut case as she uncovers a toxic school culture that contributed to the teacher's violent breakdown.

Provides varying perspectives on issues related to forensic technology, debating its reliability, if fictional portrayal of crime investigations influence verdicts of juries, and if they can be used to determine deceit; and includes information on improvements to technology.

An overview of cryptology that explains what it is, how it is used, and what role it plays in helping law enforcement agencies solve and fight crime.

Veteran Interpol agent Henri Poincar?'s investigation of the murder of mathematician James Fenster just before Fenster's scheduled speech at a World Trade Organization meeting, leads him to America where he is making progress when he is called back to Europe to face unfinished business from a former genocide case, and comes to the realization the his two cases are related and he is the link.

Tegan, in the back seat of the car when her two best friends are gunned down in front of her, must sort through her memories to determine what is real and what is imagined when she finds no one believes she did not see the killer.

Contains thirteen essays that provide varying perspectives on issues related to DNA data banks, including the benefits and burdens of DNA databases, governmental intrusion on private information, securing privacy, physical profiles, and more.

After the whole village of Bishop's Lacey descends on Flavia de Luce's family's estate during a raging blizzard to watch the filming of a movie, a person ends up dead, strangled by a length of film, and the eleven-year-old budding chemist must find the killer.

Describes the search for D. B. Cooper, a hijacker who mysteriously disappeared after parachuting from a plane with $200,000 in ransom money during a rainy night over Washington state.

Assistant district attorney Andy Barber is shocked when his fourteen-year-old son Jacob is accused of murdering a fellow student.

After solving a deadly case in the small town of Lobo's Nod, seventeen-year-old Jazz, the son of history's most infamous serial murderer, travels to New York City to help the police track down the Hat-Dog Killer.

Fifteen-year-old Freedom Smith is a fighter, just like all of his relatives who have the "Hercules gene, " which leads him to a choice between being jailed for attempted murder or working with a covert law enforcement agency to break up a mysterious, illegal fight ring.

As she uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to investigate the death of a young runaway, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, an assistant to her coroner father, worries that her secretive mother may be involved.

Cameryn Mahoney is the assistant to the county coroner, so she's no stranger to death.

Provides instructions for experiments that explain techniques used by crime scene investigators, such as fingerprinting and handwriting analysis; and offers tips on using the workshops as science fair projects.