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Bug man novels
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Series
Bug man novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
In a remote county of North Carolina, thirty-year-old Kathryn Guilford receives the news that her long-time friend and one-time suitor is dead. The authorities declare the death as a suicide, but Kathryn is not convinced. In desperation she turns to Dr. Nick Polchak, the Bug Man, to help her learn the truth-and she is introduced to a mysterious world of blood-seeking flies and flesh-eating beetles. But there's a problem...Kathryn Guilford has a...
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Bug man novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
An autopsy room is where secrets are revealed...or buried. Young Dr. Riley McKay has worked hard toward her career in pathology-and now she has secured a fellowship at the renowned Allegheny County Coroner's Office in Pittsburgh. But her promising future is threatened when suspicious activities incriminate her supervising pathologist, Dr. Nathan Lassiter. Bungled autopsies, concealed evidence, and unexplained wounds accumulate at an alarming rate....
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Series
Bug man novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Downs's third thriller to feature forensic entomologist Nick Bug Man Polchak (after 2004's Chop Shop) stands out from the pack of CSI-inspired mysteries with its quirky hero and creative handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Polchak-an expert in using bugs to deduce the time and circumstances of death-is a member of DMORT, the disaster mortuary operational response team, used by FEMA to assist with mass casualties. As the deadly hurricane nears...
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Series
Bug man novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Some secrets just won't stay buried. When strange bones surface on a U.S. senator's property, the FBI enlists forensic entomologist Nick Polchak to investigate the forgotten graveyard. Polchak's orders are simple: figure out the mess.
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Series
Bug man novels volume 5
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
While investigating the murder of an organic farmer in North Carolina, Dr. Nick Polchack finds an infestation of diseased insects, a discovery that leads him to an agricultural scheme to cripple the U.S.'s ethanol production.
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Series
Bug man novels volume 6
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Forensic entomologist Nick Polchak lives in a world of maggots and blow flies and decomposing bodies. No wonder he's still single. But Nick has finally found a woman as strange as he is-dog trainer Alena Savard, a woman who can seemingly talk to animals, a person so odd and reclusive that some think she must be a witch. It was a match made in heaven. Nick and Alena are scheduled to be married on Saturday-but there's one small problem. ...
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