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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.
63) Causa de muerte
Author
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.
Author
Series
Jonathan Ransom novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1980, a secret American B-52 crashes high in a remote mountain range on the Pakistan, Afghanistan border. Nearly thirty years later, and spanning locales from those peaks to New York City, a terrible truth will be revealed. Jonathan Ransom returns as the resourceful doctor thrown into a shadowy world of double and triple agents where absolutely no one can be trusted. To stay alive, Ransom must unravel the mystery surrounding his wife, an enigmatic...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Christmas is the last thing on Cole Barrett's mind this year. He's barely hanging on trying to care for his two grieving children since his ex-wife died in a tragic accident. For the reclusive Cole, this is no time for gift-giving and celebration--and certainly not for a sunny-natured optimist to blow into his screwed-up life"--Page 4 of cover.
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.,...
68) Tailspin
Author
Language
English
Description
Rye Mallett, a fearless "freight dog" pilot charged with flying cargo to far-flung locations, is often rough-spoken and all business, but soft on regulations when they get in the way of meeting a deadline. But he does have a rock-solid reputation: he will fly in the foulest weather, day or night, and deliver the goods safely to their destination. So when Rye is asked to fly into a completely fogbound northern Georgia town and deliver a mysterious...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
"La semana antes de Navidad, el desastre económico hace que la doctora Kay Scarpetta-- pese a su apretada agenda y su trabajo como analista forense para la CNN--ofrezca sus servicios gratuitos a la Oficina del Jefe de Medicina Forense de Nueva York...En televisión, se le pregunta en directo por la sonada desaparición de Hannah Starr, a la que se da por muerta..."--Dust jacket.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were roommates at the Naval Academy. Gabe is now a country doctor and Andrew is President of the United States. During a bitter presidential campaign, Stoddard reveals to Gabe that his personal physician has mysteriously disappeared, and he needs Gabe to replace him. Once in the White House, Gabe finds strong evidence that the President is going insane. Facing a crisis of conscience - he can invoke the Twenty-fifth...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
1945: When the critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenal is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel's portrait miniature who looks so much like Kate? And why is she wearing the ruby pendant handed down to Kate by her mother?...
74) The bone bed
Author
Series
Language
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,...
Author
Series
Blossom street novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
-- Starting Now BONUS: This edition includes excerpts from Debbie Macomber's -- -- New York Journal of Books BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Debbie Macomber’s Rose Harbor in Bloom.
76) Autopsy
Author
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"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
Author
Series
Christmas mysteries (Anne Perry) volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A courageous doctor and his apprentice fight to save London's poor--and discover that the hearts of men can be colder than a winter chill--in this gripping holiday mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Scuff has come a long way from his time as a penniless orphan scraping together a living on the banks of the Thames. Now he's studying medicine at a free clinic run by Dr. Crowe. Lately Crowe has grown distracted after witnessing...
79) The scenic route
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The shortest distance between soul mates isn't always a straight line.... When Austin Gittleman first met Naomi Bloom, they were grammar school classmates and she pasted pictures of him in her Barbie Dreamhouse. Those days are long gone. Austin is a Midwestern doctor who always tries to do the right thing-even if it often turns out wrong. Naomi is a Miami pastry chef with a taste for adventure. They seem to have nothing in common. But that doesn't...
80) Paradise Cove
Author
Series
Matchmaker Bay volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Nora Walsh has just been dumped in spectacular fashion, making it the perfect time for a major life change. She figures taking over the medical practice in tiny Matchmaker Bay for a couple of years will help her get over her broken heart, and then she can head back to the big city. But when the first man she sees looks like a superhero god, she wonders if maybe there's something to small-town living after all. Jake Ramsey also has a broken heart--one...
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