Amanda Burton
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Silent Witness volume 1
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English
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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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Silent Witness volume 3
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English
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Sam Ryan takes on a gangland murder case to help builder Brian McNally, whom she believes to be innocent.
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Silent Witness volume 5
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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 1
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English
Description
Forensic Pathologist Dr. Samantha Ryan moves back to Cambridge from London to take up a consultant's post at The Park Teaching Hospital. Sam's first case is the tragic death of a six-year-old girl, Sarah Crew, who is thought to have fallen from a rope swi
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Silent Witness volume 4
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English
Description
Following the death of murder suspect Brian McNally, Sam Ryan is approached by his daughter.
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Silent Witness volume 4
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English
Description
Sam is called to the scene of a restaurant fire where DI Adams needs her help to identify a badly burnt body. It emerges that the prime suspect is one of Sam's students, who had come to her for advice recently, and Sam needs to decide whether to tell the
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Silent Witness volume 3
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English
Description
When a death occurs in police custody, the footprints of the man who was sharing his cell are found all over the body. It looks like an open and shut case for Dr. Sam Ryan. But just as the investigation appears to be over, Sam receives a note written on p
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Silent Witness volume 6
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English
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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.
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Silent Witness volume 2
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English
Description
Dr. Sam Ryan is called to the scene of the murder of Mark James, a young man whose badly decomposed body cannot hide the signs of a ritual element to the killing: there is an upside-down cross-scored on his back and a ligature around his neck. Then when a
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Silent Witness volume 2
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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?
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Silent Witness volume 4
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English
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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.
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Silent Witness volume 6
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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.
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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Silent Witness volume 3
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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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Silent Witness volume 5
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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.
16) Pollyanna
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Series
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English
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A young girl reveals how a little positive thinking can make a big difference.Every dark cloud has a silver lining--and young Pollyanna knows how to find it. Newcomer Georgina Terry makes a stirring debut as Pollyanna in this heartwarming tale of a little girl whose effortless charm captures the hearts of family, friends, and strangers alike. After the death of her father, Pollyanna moves in with her downcast, embittered aunt (Amanda Burton, Silent...
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Silent Witness volume 2
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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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Silent Witness volume 6
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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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Silent Witness volume 4
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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
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Silent Witness volume 1
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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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