Alternatives to Kathy Reichs

Does anyone know of authors similar to Kathy Reichs? I'm interested in mysteries with a forensic element. Thanks for suggestions!

Try Patricia Cornwell. Start with her earliest Kay Scarpetta books. Lots of people have become disenchanted with her more recent novels, and I haven't read one in quite a while. I do remember really enjoying the older ones.

You might try the series by Jefferson Bass. The series is a collaborative between two writers, one, an anthropologist.

Beverly Connors wrote a mystery series featuring a forensic anthropologist.

How about the Jeffery Deaver series that starts with The Bone Collector? Seems to me like that would fit the bill (though I've only seen the movie with Denzel Washington).

Aaron Elkins did a series of books about a forensic anthropologist named Gideon Oliver . . . much lighter in tone than Reichs but well worth reading. The series really hits its stride with book 3 Murder in the Queen's Armes, and the next three -- Old Bones, Curses!, and Icy Clutches -- are perhaps the best of the lot.

Ken Goddard's stand-alone thriller Balefire is, I think, about forensic scientists tracking a would-be terrorist in LA before the 1984 Olympics, but I read it a very long time ago and my memory may be faulty. It is, however, excellent.

Ridley Pearson's novels about Seattle PD detectives Lou Boldt and Daphne Matthews have a forensic angle to them . . . though not as strong as Reichs or Cornwell.

Iris Johansen writes a series featuring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan.

For a different take, try Ariana Franklin's Mistress of the Art of Death series. Young woman with medical training practicing forensics in medieval Cambridge

Thanks for the suggestions!

Tess Gerritsen writes forensic mysteries also.