Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta books
Aaron Elkins' books about Gideon Oliver, the Bone Detective (forensic anthropologist).
Bone Deep by Darian North
Noreen Ayres, about
a forensic pathologist named Smokey Brandon, in California:
A
World The Color of Salt
Carcass Trade
Sarah Lovett, about a forensic psychiatrist in New Mexico:
Dangerous Attachments
Acquired Motives
A
Desperate Silence
Outside the Rules, by Dylan Jones, is about a "forensic psychiatrist".
Chain of Evidence by Ridley Pearson; or any other Ridley Pearson novel.
Sharyn McCrumb: any of the Elizabeth MacPherson novels. (Elizabeth MacPherson is a medical examiner, and does unofficial detective work in the novels; forensics seldom figures in the books, however.)
Richard La Plante:
Leopard
Mantis
Steroid Blues
D. J. Donaldson:
Cajun
Nights
Blood
on the Bayou
No
Mardi Gras for the Dead (weakest of the series: also hardest to
find)
New
Orleans Requiem
Louisiana
Fever
Do
No Harm (medical thriller)
In
the Blood (medical thriller)
One of the Adam Dalgleish novels by P.D. James is set primarily in a forensic science lab: Death of an Expert Witness.
Susan Dunlap wrote
some books about a former medical examiner who now runs her own detective agency
and uses forensic evidence to solve the cases. Kiernan O'Shaughnessy is her
name and she appears in these books:
Pious Deception
High Fall
Rogue Wave
Former L.A. Medical Examiner Thomas
Noguchi wrote a couple of fiction books:
Physical Evidence
Unnatural Causes
Noguchi also wrote two non-fiction books on the topics addressed in the fiction
series Quincy:
Coroner and Coroner at Large.
Caleb Carr presents a scientist struggling for the very beginnings of both psychology and forensics in The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness.
Robert Greer: The
Devil's Hatband
Not exactly on-topic, but excellent Afro-American hardboiled mysteries:
The
Devil's Backbone
The Devil's Red Nickel
Thomas Harris:
Silence
of the Lambs
Hannibal (more dark psychological thriller
than forensic fiction)
Red Dragon
Louise
Hendricksen:
Lethal Legacy
Grave Secrets
With Deadly Intent
Martin Cruz Smith: Gorky Park. (Listed among the Top 100, Crown of Crime by Mystery Writers of America (MWA) members.)
Robert W. Walker has published one series about FBI forensic pathologist Jessica Coran (mixed reviews: sample, Extreme Instinct), and another featuring Texas Cherokee tracker Lucas Stonecoat and forensic psychiatrist Meredith Sanger. (mixed reviews: sample, Cold Edge)
Medical mysteries: Eileen
Dreyer :
Bad
Medicine
A Man to Die For
Keith Ablow is an M.D. with a private practice in forensic psychiatry.He is also an essayist and novelist, and has created a series around a forensic psychologist, Frank Clevenger.
Weaker but included for completeness:
Robin Cook's medical thrillers. (Yes, I read them too, but it's not for the forensics.)
Leonard Goldberg:
Deadly
medicine
A deadly practice
Deadly
care
Deadly
harvest
Non-fiction:
The bone detectives : how forensic anthropologists
solve crimes
Bones : a forensic detective's casebook
Witnesses from the grave : the stories
bones tell
Mostly Murder by Sir Sidney Smith.
There Might be Monsters by Robert
Ressler-(he was the man that principally started the profiler movement in the
FBI- pretty instrumental in training John Douglas the Mindhunter guy)