Patricia Cornwell
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 22
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the next enthralling thriller in her high-stakes series starring Kay Scarpetta--a complex tale involving a serial sniper who strikes chillingly close to the forensic sleuth herself.It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday, and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this...
2) Scarpetta
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
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Leaving behind her Charleston forensic pathology practice to accept an assignment in New York City, Kay Scarpetta learns the story of an injured psychiatric patient who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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"The book of the dead is the morgue log. For Kay Scarpetta, it has a new meaning. Moving to Charleston, she opens a forensic pathology practice in which she and her colleagues, including Pete Marion and her niece, Lucy, offer expert crime-scene investigation and autopsies to communities that lack access to modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation, until the battles start with local politicians, with entrenched interests, with someone whose...
4) Predator
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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"Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, digs into a case more bizarre than any she has ever faced, one that has produced not only unusual physical evidence, but also tantalizing clues about the inner workings of an extremely cunning and criminal mind." "She and her team - Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and her niece Lucy - track the odd connections between several horrific crimes and the people who are the likely...
5) dust
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
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Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working a mass murder when she's awakened by Detective Pete Marino. A body, draped in an unusual cloth, has been discovered at MIT, and it's suspected it is computer engineer Gail Shipman. It appears she's been murdered, mere weeks before the trial in her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial managers. She also fears the case may have a connection with her computer...
6) At risk
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor wants to use some radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder. The result? A new round of violence.
7) Blow fly
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in quest of peace but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida. There she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life.
8) Red mist
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
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On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women to meet a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against the advice of her FBI criminal intelligence agent husband, Benton Wesley, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out. Scarpetta has both personal and professional reasons to learn...
9) Black notice
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
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Summary: Kay Scarpetta careens across international borders in this case that begins when a cargo ship arrives from Belgium at Richmond's Deep Water Terminal. The ship is carrying a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway and Kay performs the autopsy.
11) Isle of dogs
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Andy Brazil novels volume 3
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Angered over the Virginia governor's order on speed traps, the eccentric inhabitants of the isle of Tangier, in the Chesapeake Bay off the coast of Virginia, declare war on their own state, and it is up to Judy Hammer, the new superintendent of the Virginia State Police, and her aide, trooper Andy Brazil, to stop the crisis.
12) The Bone Bed
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
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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...
13) Chaos
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In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning--except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center's director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God. Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a flurry...
14) Southern cross
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Andy Brazil novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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In Richmond, Virginia, Police Chief Judy Hammer is faced with corruption, scandal, and a robbery that leads to murder. Resented by the police, city manager, and mayor, Hammer is joined by her deputy chief Virginia West and Andy Brazil on the most difficult assignment of her career.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 26
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Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner, Kay Scarpetta, is an object of suspicion and criminal investigation. The so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of Scarpetta's past. When a formidable prosecutor, a female assistant district attorney, is brought into the case, Scarpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting evidence to the contrary.
16) Point of Origin
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
[1998]
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Kay must find a killer who uses fire to mask his crimes and when she learns that her old nemesis is somehow involved, the investigation becomes personal.
17) Cause of Death
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
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New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War takes Scarpetta 30 feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. Ted Eddings, an investiagtive reporter who was a favorite at the Medical Examiner's office, has died while scuba diving. Was Eddings probing the frigid depths of the river for sunken trinkets -- or was he after a story?
18) Hornet's Nest
Author
Series
Andy Brazil novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
"The creator of Kay Scarpetta, the most fascinating character in contemporary crime fiction, now cunningly reveals the heart and soul of a metropolitan police department. With Charlotte as her simmering background, she propels us into the core of the force through the lives of a dynamic trio of heroes: Andy Brazil, an ambitious younger reporter for The Charlotte Observer and an eager - sometimes too eager-volunteer cop; Police Chief Judy Hammer, the...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
While chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the remains of a dismembered woman in a Virginia landfill, she receives an e-mail message from the killer inviting her to download photos of the victim.
20) Dust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working a mass murder when she's awakened by Detective Pete Marino. A body, draped in an unusual cloth, has been discovered at MIT, and it's suspected it is computer engineer Gail Shipman. It appears she's been murdered, mere weeks before the trial in her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial managers. She also fears the case may have a connection with her computer...