Amanda Burton
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Series
Silent Witness volume 6
Language
English
Description
Having learned that violent criminal Chris Caldwell may have been wrongly convicted for murder, Sam and DCI Michael Connor are eager to get at the truth.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 4
Language
English
Description
Following the death of murder suspect Brian McNally, Sam Ryan is approached by his daughter.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 1
Language
English
Description
Top pathologist Sam Ryan is now a professor teaching at London University. Sam is called in by ex-Detective Inspector Leslie Peterson, now a Coroner's officer, who is investigating the ditching of a helicopter ferrying crew to a gas rig with 14 passengers and two crew on board.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 3
Language
English
Description
Sam Ryan takes on a gangland murder case to help builder Brian McNally, whom she believes to be innocent.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 5
Language
English
Description
When a dozen people die in a cinema fire, Connor - now a detective chief inspector - is in charge of the investigation and, over dinner with Sam Ryan, explains that he is coming back to London. Could their relationship be rekindled, or have they both moved on?
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Series
Silent Witness volume 2
Language
English
Description
All Sam's skills are required when 10 more bodies are recovered from the North Sea, and the piecing together of the jigsaw of evidence begins in earnest with her pathology team. The discovery that a new rotor bolt was fitted to the crash helicopter recently and that the files are not up-to-date raises more questions. Who supplied and fitted the parts, and did the pilot and engineer sign them off?
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 6
Language
English
Description
In the concluding episode of the last story in this series, the nun who wants Sam to authenticate her Saint is keen to know the details of the post-mortem, especially as the future of the hospice depends on it. Meanwhile, Sam agrees to perform the second post-mortem on Helen Dupen requested by her mother, and continues to struggle with her illness.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 4
Language
English
Description
Without any evidence to go on, Sam wants to call in a psychological profiler to solve the Norway murders but cannot persuade DCI Norton it is warranted. Until, that is, a third body is found in the freezer at the family home of one of the victims.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 1
Language
English
Description
Amanda Burton returns as forensic pathologist Sam Ryan in the first of three more 2-part stories. When two elderly Jewish brothers are found murdered, their deaths are linked to the suspicious death of another man. The only man arrested in that case had been a known racist who had attacked the two brothers' just months before.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 3
Language
English
Description
When the bodies of two teenage girls are revealed frozen in the snow at a Norwegian summer ski resort after an avalanche, Sam is called in to identify the bodies. There are no forensic clues left on the bodies, but both girls were wearing hair-slides and had their hair arranged in bunches.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 5
Language
English
Description
Sam is called in to examine the body of a nun who had visions of having her heart pierced before she died in 1959, and investigates the death of a woman who apparently committed suicide. She also learns she may have a life-threatening tumor, which she thinks is affecting her judgment.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 2
Language
English
Description
Sam discovers that the Polish victim of a third apparently racially motivated attack was a member of the SS, and that there were traces of morphine in a glass found in his apartment. She realizes that the motive behind the murders was not racial, but revenge.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 4
Language
English
Description
The hunt is on for Craig Tate. He was at Evans' party, he had recently had an argument with his dead brother Mark and in his apartment, the police have found a quantity of cannabis and a framed picture of Mark, smashed to pieces and covered in blood. But
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 8
Language
English
Description
The following day, Sam reports to Ross and Selway what she has seen, but they are skeptical. Sam is forced to put her job on the line to prove that they are wrong and that this horrifying crime was committed by two 15-year-old boys. As she pursues the tru
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 1
Language
English
Description
Young, highly successful Asian boxer, Kevin Sharma, drives his car onto a building site. Minutes later, he drags his bruised and bloody body out of a skip, leaving Tony Kennedy, the man he has just knocked down, still inside. Six weeks later, Sam Ryan and
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Series
Silent Witness volume 6
Language
English
Description
The police are still convinced that Matthews is responsible for his wife's death, until one of the team points out to Ross an old case file. Eight years before, a man called Baxter was killed in exactly the same way as Alan. Ross asks Sam to compare the B
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Series
Silent Witness volume 3
Language
English
Description
In the consulting rooms of a large hospital, Mark Tate realizes that he is now entering the final stages of AIDS. Later that day, his brother Craig sits waiting for his mother Isobel, hoping that reconciliation may be possible. In another part of Cambridg
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Series
Silent Witness volume 2
Language
English
Description
The investigation widens. Sam quickly realizes that Terri's death could not have been suicide but she still has to prove it. Meanwhile the police are fitting together the pieces of a too-coincidental puzzle. At the gym, everything is in turmoil, until Kei
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 5
Language
English
Description
Ross is looking at cold cases when Helen Matthews' body is found. Her murder is similar to one a year ago. Everything points to her husband Mike, an airfield manager. Everyone in the office knew about Alan, his Senior Flying Instructor, and Helen's affair
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Series
Silent Witness volume 7
Language
English
Description
When an elderly woman is beaten to death on a rundown inner-city estate, suspicion falls upon a local alcoholic who has a history of violent crime. But Sam has little specific forensic evidence and the actual details of how Millicent sustained her injurie