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1) Autopsy
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 25
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New York Times Bestseller
In this relaunch of the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts those responsible for two wildly divergent and chilling murders.
Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia, the state where she launched her storied career, as the chief medical examiner. Finding herself
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 23
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In Scarpetta, Patricia Cornwell has a character as strong as any in popular fiction" —Wall Street Journal
New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the newest engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.
Depraved Heart: "Void of social duty and fatally bent on mischief."
—Mayes v. People, 806 III. 306 (1883)
Dr.
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 22
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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 a kids' game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there's been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with...
4) Chaos
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 24
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"When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell."
—New York Times Book Review
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CHAOS
From the Ancient Greek (χάος or kháos)
A vast chasm or void. Anarchy. The science of unpredictability.
On a late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
...5) Scarpetta
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 16
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From America’s #1 bestselling crime writers comes an extraordinary #1 New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta novel.
Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically...
Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically...
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta is starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina. But in this thrilling #1 New York Times bestseller, her fresh start ushers in a string of murders more baffling—and terrifying—than any that have come before...
The Book of the Dead is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to acquire...
The Book of the Dead is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to acquire...
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta plunges into the murky depths of a ship graveyard to recover the very human remains of Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter. Together with her niece Lucy and police captain Pete Marino, Scarpetta will follow the scents of death and violence to the heart of sinister darkness.
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Patricia Cornwell turns from forensics to police procedures in Hornet's Nest.
The gritty, heroic life of big-city police is seen through the eyes of three leading crimefighters from Charlotte, North Carolina—Police Chief Judy Hammer, Deputy Chief Virginia West, and ambitious young reporter Andy Brazil.
The gritty, heroic life of big-city police is seen through the eyes of three leading crimefighters from Charlotte, North Carolina—Police Chief Judy Hammer, Deputy Chief Virginia West, and ambitious young reporter Andy Brazil.
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#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this classic forensic thriller.
Little Emily Steiner left a church meeting late one afternoon and strolled toward home along a lakeside path; a week later, her nude body was discovered, bound in blaze-orange duct tape. Called by the North Carolina authorities, forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta recognizes similarities to the gruesome...
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Seit neun Jahren wartet Ronnie Joe Waddel im Todestrakt auf seine Hinrichtung auf dem elektrischen Stuhl. Während vor dem Staatsgefängnis von Virginia noch die Gegner der Todesstrafe protestieren, obduziert Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta zweiundzwanzig Minuten nach seinem Tod Waddels Leiche. Kurz darauf bekommt sie es mit dem grausamen Mord an einem Dreizehnjährigen zu tun - und das Verbrechen trägt Waddels Handschrift. Ist der Mörder...
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Der grausame Mord an der elfjährigen Emily Steiner schockiert die Kleinstadt Black Mountain im Westen von North Carolina. Die örtliche Polizei hatte es bislang selten mit Mord oder sexuellem Missbrauch von Kindern zu tun - und noch niemals mit einem Fall, auf den beides zutraf. Die Menschen dort kommen nicht mal auf die Idee, nachts ihre Haustüren abzuschließen. Gerichtsmedizinerin Kay Scarpetta, die in Virginia in einem ähnlichen Fall ermittelt,...
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The eleventh Scarpetta novel, in which the Chief Medical Examiner is under a Grand Jury investigation for murder. She knows she's being framed and she no longer knows who she can trust… Physically and psychologically bruised by her encounter with the killer Chandonne, Dr Kay Scarpetta has to leave her home in the hands of the police team investigating the attack. She finds shelter with an old friend, Anna Zenner, but it is not the haven of security...
13) Point of Origin
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This dazzling thriller pits Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta against greater odds than ever before. Convicted serial killer Carrie Grethen has escaped from psychiatric hospital with plans for revenge. Wary and shaken, Scarpetta also has to investigate the death by fire of an unknown woman. The post-mortem reveals that the woman was stabbed before the fire was started, and soon Scarpetta and her colleagues are called out to the scene of another...
14) Totenstarre
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Es ist ein idyllischer Sommerabend in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an dem Dr. Kay Scarpetta zu einer Radfahrerin in einem Park gerufen wird. Die Leiche ist starr, doch die junge Frau kann noch nicht lange tot sein. Teile der Kleidung sind ihr vom Körper gerissen, doch nicht von Menschenhand. Die goldene Totenkopfkette der jungen Frau hat sich in die Haut eingebrannt. Alles deutet auf einen Blitzschlag hin, doch es gab kein Gewitter. Noch ahnt Scarpetta...
15) Blow Fly
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
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The Twelfth Dr Kay Scarpetta Novel. Dr Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in quest of peace but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida, where she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life.
16) Isle of Dogs
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Newly installed superintendent of the Virginia State Police, Judy Hammer, and her right hand and confidant, Andy Brazil, are at their wits' end trying to protect the public from the politicians – and vice versa. And amid the mayhem, an island off the coast of Virginia declares UDI – claiming its independence lies in the history of America's first settlers, those who set sail from London's Isle of Dogs in 1607.
17) Black Notice
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
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Following the post mortem of a stowaway which reveals neither cause of death nor identity, Dr Kay Scarpetta travels to Paris in search of information. In Paris she is given a secret mission, a mission which could ruin her career.
18) Trace
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Trace is the heart-stopping new Dr. Kay Scarpetta thriller from America's #1 best-selling crime writer. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. In Trace, Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that...
19) Southern Cross
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Following in the path of her blockbuster Kay Scarpetta thrillers, Patricia Cornwell's novel is a testimony to the singular versatility and narrative power of one of the country's best-read storytellers. In Southern Cross, she casts her shrewd and knowing eye at the men and women in blue, in a story of corruption, scandal, and murder. Richmond, Virginia, is a city rich in Southern history, yet overrun by such modern-day problems as drug trafficking...
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Filled with tension and continual surprises, Unnatural Exposure is a thrilling chapter in Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta's life--and a triumph for #1 New York Times best-selling author Patricia Cornwell. The body of an elderly woman is found dismembered in a Virginia landfill. Scarpetta initially believes the clues mirror that of a serial killer she's tracked before, but upon further investigation, she discovers puzzling pox-like eruptions...
