Patricia Cornwell
1) Dust
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Series
Scarpetta volume 21
Language
English
Description
Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she's awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino. A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT and it's suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineer Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. It appears she's been...
2) Red mist
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Series
Language
English
Description
The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer. Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people...
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 17
Language
English
Description
It is the week before Christmas and Dr Kay Scarpetta has offered her services pro bono to New York Citys Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast, she receives a startling call-in from...
4) Trace
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 13
Language
English
Description
Now freelancing from South Florida, Kay Scarpetta is asked to return to Richmond, Virginia, where she is faced with solving the death of a fourteen-year-old girl, while Benton and Lucy are embroilled in what at first appears to be an unrelated attack by a stalker.
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 15
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta's new private forensic lab is not welcomed in Charleston and it doesn't help when her investigation into the death of U.S. tennis star, Drew Martin, connects to the body of an unidentified South Carolina boy.
6) The front
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Language
English
Description
Dispatched by the district attorney to a declining Massachusetts neighborhood to address a case related to a new public relations campaign, state investigator Win Garano becomes involved with a loosely organized association of vigilante police officers.
7) Postmortem
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 1
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner, is called in to find forensic evidence to aid the police in their investigation of a killer who has strangled four women in Richmond, Virginia.
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 18
Language
English
Description
As the chief of the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility and ruin her personal and professional life.
9) Scarpetta
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Series
Scarpetta volume 16
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked for her to examine an injured patient on Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison ward.
11) Black notice
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Series
Scarpetta volume 10
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta and policeman Pete Marino investigate a body found in a cargo ship that has recently arrived in Richmond, Virginia.
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 11
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself an object of suspicion and criminal investigation, and must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting evidence to the contrary.
13) Predator
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 14
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowbound Boston; one that at first appears as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team -- Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli -- to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the...
14) Body of evidence
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Series
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of a woman who has been terrified by a stalker.
15) At risk
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Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Description
A Massachusetts D.A. who is running for governor looks for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology to fight crime, but when a shocking piece of violence intervenes, her state investigator is not so sure it is a random event.