Forensic entomologist Dr. Nick Polchak is supposed to get married within a matter of days, but finds himself drawn into a murder investigation where the victim is an old friend and when he hasn't been heard from, his fiancée, a dog trainer, sets out to find him before the wedding date.

Nick Polchak must stop a terrorist from causing a global ecological nightmare.

Two beautiful women from Nick's past are competing for his heart.

He's not sure which impending disaster makes him more nervous.

When forensic entomologist Nick Polchak is called to the scene of a murder on a small organic farm in North Carolina he is astonished to find that the victim's estranged wife is an old friend, a woman he once

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Discusses how forensic entomologists use insects and other creatures as scientific evidence to help them solve crimes.

1. The body handlers -- 2. Reasonable doubt -- 3. The bone detectives -- 4. The witness was a maggot -- 5. Bug sleuthing crosses the Atlantic -- 6. A model for murder -- 7. The dirty dozen -- 8. Perfecting the postmortem clock -- 9. Plants, pollen, and perpetrators -- 10. The pathologist's garden -- 11. Chemical clues -- 12. The new mod squad.