I've read and reviewed these books separately, so this is basically just for my own records. Postmortem got four stars from me and Body of Evidence three, so the average comes to three and a half.

When I first read these books, back as a teenager, they were the first mysteries I'd read (and I hadn't read many) that focused on forensics. The first book made a real impression with all the science, which is why I rated it so highly, but it seemed as if there was substantially less in the second book, which didn't grab me as much. I think, too, that part of the difference is not only the amount of science present, but what type it is. Biology will always be more interesting to me than the other scientific disciplines, and that most of what forensics there was in the second book had to do with different types of nylon rope... well, I was less than riveted. Still, an interesting series, and I'm coming back to it now so am excited to get past the first few books, which is where I stopped last time.