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21) Intervention
Author
Language
English
Description
When his newborn son by his second wife is diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma, New York City forensic pathologist Jack Stapleton seeks to find a cure for his son while at the same time being drawn into a battle between the archbishop of New York and an archeologist--a battle involving what some people believe to be the skeletal remains the Virgin Mary.
23) Vector
Author
Language
English
Description
A disgruntled Russian emigre is poised to lash out at the adoptive nation he believes has denied him the American dream. A former technician in the Soviet biological weapons systems, he possesses the knowledge to unleash into the streets of New York City the ultimate terror: a modern bioweapon. But before he executes his final act of vengeance, he must first experiment on a few unsuspecting victims.
24) Chromosome 6
Author
Language
English
Description
Behind the headlines on cloning--Dr. Robin Cook blends fact with fiction in one of his most terrifying bestsellers...Chromosome 6 is a prophetic thriller that challenges the medical ethics of genetic manipulation and cloning in the jungles of equatorial Africa, where one mistake could bridge the gap between man and ape--and forever change the genetic map of our existence...
25) 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...
Author
Series
Richard Pryor mystery volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An apparent bizarre suicide in a remote Welsh farm starts them on a new investigation, which is followed by an unusual request from the War Office. And when a Cotswold veterinary surgeon is charged with poisoning his ailing wife, can Pryor's expert evidence save him from the gallows?
Author
Series
Lincoln Rhyme novel volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Rhyme tracks an elusive assassin known only by his coffin dancer tattoo.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics--until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With police detective Amelia Sachs by his side, Rhyme must follow a labyrinth of clues that reaches back to a dark chapter in New York City's past--and reach further into the darkness of the mind of a madman...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After suffering a terrible personal loss, Dr. Samantha Owens is settling into a new job at Georgetown University when she receives a letter from a dead man asking to solve his murder. As she investigates the man's death, she is pulled into a twenty-year-old mystery involving a kidnapped child as well as the present-day death of Timothy Savage.
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 5
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta applies her forensic skills to solve the death of an eleven-year-old girl in North Carolina, a crime that appears to be the handiwork of Temple Gault.
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 6
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and consulting forensic pathologist for the FBI, is called in when a dead body is found naked in New York's Central Park, and the manner of death suggests that Temple Gault is back at work.
Author
Series
Zeta negra volume 171
Publisher
Zeta Bolsillo
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of U.S. tennis star Drew Martin, and soon discovers a connection between Martin's death, the death of an unidentified boy in South Carolina,and her old enemy psychiatrist Dr. Marilyn Self.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From the co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid, a thrilling debut novel told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads. Something dark is lurking in the Louisiana bayou: a methodical killer with a penchant for medical experimentation is hard at work completing his most harrowing crime yet, taunting the authorities who desperately try to catch up. But...
34) Cold cold bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan volume 21
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-first novel of suspense featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, after receiving a box containing a human eyeball, uncovers a series of gruesome killings eerily reenacting the most shocking of her prior cases"--
35) Grave goods
Author
Series
Mistress of the Art of Death novel volume 3
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
When the bodies of two people are discovered in the remains of an arson fire that destroyed Glastonbury Abbey, Adelia Aguilar, Mistress of the Art of Death, is ordered by Henry II to determine if one of the sets of bones belongs to the legendary Celtic savior Arthur.
Author
Series
Mistress of the Art of Death novel volume 2
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Ordered by Henry II to establish the possible role of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the poisoning death of Henry's mistress, a reluctant Adelia Aguilar joins forces with her infant daughter's father, the Bishop of St. Albans, during the investigation.
37) Unnatural death
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 27
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta's career. In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell's #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Richard Pryor uses his 'golden handshake' to set up in private practice with scientist Angela Bray. A friendly coroner gives them a start, and when two women both claim that human remains found near a reservoir are their relatives, the dilemma is given to them to investigate.
Author
Series
Tony Hill/Carol Jordan novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Forensic profiler Dr. Tony Hill is called in to track a vicious killer across northern Europe, a case that he takes on when the next victim is an old friend and that is soon complicated by his former partner, Detective Carol Jordan.
Author
Series
Lincoln Rhyme volume 15
Language
English
Description
A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment's supposedly impregnable door lock and rearranged personal items, even sitting beside her while she slept. The intrusion, the police learn, is a message to the entire city of carnage to come. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that the sociopathic intruder, who calls himself "the Locksmith," can break through any lock or security system...
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