Patricia Daniels Cornwell
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts, when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field and physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely weird homicides in Washington, D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI husband has been deployed to help capture a serial killer dubbed the Capital...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Odd that 26-year-old Elisa Vandersteel seems to have been killed by lightening while riding her bike along the Charles River one starlit night. Soon thereafter, medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta starts receiving creepy poems about the case from an anonymous cyberbully, and the media go berserk when lab results confirm Scarpetta's implausible lightning hypothesis. With a million-copy first printing. Scarpetta series series, 400pp.,...
24) Cruel y extraño
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
"Killing me won't kill the beast" are the last words of murderer Ronnie Waddell, written before his execution. They can't explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell's fingerprints on another crime scene, after she performed his autopsy. If this is the game, Scarpetta will be the target. If the next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and unusual.
Ronnie Joe Waddell va a ser ejecutado por un horrible crimen y la doctora Scarpetta,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
Deseosa de empezar una nueva vida libre de los lastres del pasado, Kay Scarpetta decide cerrar su etapa como forense en Richmond y elige Florida como destino donde alcanzar la tan anhelada tranquilidad. Sin embargo, hay alguien que no está dispuesto a que la doctora rehaga su vida: Jean- Baptiste Chandonme, el psicópata que la aterrorizó tiempo atrás, la reclama ahora desde el corredor de la muerte. La mosca de la muerte es una novela intensa...
26) El frente
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
D.A. Lamont has a special job for Garano. As a new campaign about the dangers of declining neighborhoods, she sends him to Watertown to come up with a drama. Garano knows that Watertown is also the home base of police department called the FRONT. In the days that follow it will resemble a house of mirrors and he's not sure if what he sees is true.
D.un. Lamont tiene un trabajo especial para Garano. Como una nueva campaña acerca de los peligros de...
29) Causa de muerte
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
In Norfolk, Virginia, a reporter is killed while scuba diving in the naval yard. As she investigates, chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta uncovers a plot by a fascist militia to take over an atomic power plant.
31) Autopsy
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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"--
32) Red mist
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Series
Language
English
Description
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 as far away as California seem unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 26
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the sister of the judge presiding over a sensational murder case is found dead, chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, the reluctant star witness in the trial, investigates and recognizes telltale signs of the unthinkable, pitting her against a powerful force that returns her to the past.
34) The bone bed
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Series
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English
Description
"A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect that the paleontologist's disppearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures,...
35) Unnatural death
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"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."--
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Series
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English
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers another enthralling thriller in her high-stakes forensic series starring Kay Scarpetta"--
"#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...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip...
39) Cause of death
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, anticipating a quiet New Year's Eve, is called to investigate the death of a reporter found in the waters of a Navy shipyard who was following an explosive story that leads Scarpetta and the FBI into the hands of a cult fanatic.
40) Port mortuary
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Language
English
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Description
When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover...