Patricia Daniels Cornwell
1) Autopsy
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Scarpetta volume 25
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English
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"Scarpetta is back! In this twenty-fifth in the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts an ingenious killer who has mastered cutting-edge science for the most nefarious ends"--
2) Quantum
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"On the eve of a top secret space mission, Captain Calli Chase detects a tripped alarm in the tunnels deep below a NASA research center. A NASA pilot, quantum physicist, and cybercrime investigator, Calli knows that a looming blizzard and government shutdown could provide the perfect cover for sabotage, with deadly consequences. As it turns out, the danger is worse than she thought. A spatter of dried blood, a missing security badge, a suspicious...
3) Spin
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"In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister--as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top-secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. From NASA to the White House to distant orbits of space, Calli, aided by cutting-edge technologies, plays a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek with...
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2023.
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English
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"Chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why."--
6) Predator
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Books On Tape
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (651 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In Florida, Kay Scarpetta is investigating the puzzling disappearance of four people who have been abducted from their home, leaving their car parked haphazardly in the driveway and a stove burner on low. Then Pete Marino finds something in a nearby house that stops him cold: a woman who has complained of harassment from a citrus canker inspector has been viciously murdered in her bed. Are these events related or merely random?
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Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
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675 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when a video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. As Scarpetta watches she comes to grips with frightening secrets about her niece. That first clip and others sent soon after raise dangerous implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta and...
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#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this classic forensic thriller.
Little Emily Steiner left a church meeting late one afternoon and strolled toward home along a lakeside path; a week later, her nude body was discovered, bound in blaze-orange duct tape. Called by the North Carolina authorities, forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta recognizes similarities to the gruesome...
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On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia's Elizabeth River, a scuba diver's body is discovered near the Inactive Naval Shipyard. As the police begin searching for clues, the wallet of investigative report Ted eddings is found. Unnerved by the possible identity of the victim,...
10) Postmortem
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Four women with nothing in common are brutalized by a brilliant psycopath who leaves no clues. When the police come up empty-handed, Kay Scarpetta, a skilled and unrelenting medical examiner, gets the call. But someone inside her lab wants to kill her investigation--worse, someone wants to kill her, too!
11) Livid
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
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351 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta testifies in a case, fumbled by the initial pathologist, concerning a drowned beauty queen whose fiancé is charged with her death. Then the judge's sister is murdered. Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fiancé, who...
12) The bone bed
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
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603 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind all this? And whom can Scarpetta trust? Her lead...
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
494 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Kay Scarpetta--now a senior forensic analyst for CNN--becomes embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom her niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past.
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
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553 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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Examines the century-old series of murders that terrorized London in the 1880s, drawing on research, state-of-the-art forensic science, and insights into the criminal mind to reveal the true identity of the infamous Jack the Ripper.