Kay Scarpetta mysteries
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1) Postmortem
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©1990
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr Kay Scarpetta uses forensic medicine to try to catch the killer of five young women.
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and sleuth Dr. Kay Scarpetta must employ all the investigative technology at her disposal in a hunt for the brutal murderer of a writer who had been involved in a bizarre relationship.
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta tries to find out who has been stalking pairs of young lovers in the woodlands of Virginia.
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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A crime story featuring Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta and a convicted murderer sentenced to death in the electric chair.
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
412 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
Language
English
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Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia are separated by an ocean, yet Medical Examiner Scarpetta has uncovered one gruesome similarity. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found a decade ago in Ireland, and now four similar victims have surfaced in Virginia. Are these copy-cat crimes?
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
Language
English
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The clues to a series of remorseless killings go up in smoke--and only Kay Scarpetta can find them.
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta of Richmond, Virginia, investigates a body found in a ship's container from Europe. A tattoo on the body sends her flying to Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France, where she learns of a killer known as The Werewolf.
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 11
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 26
Physical Desc
449 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
12) Blow fly
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Leaving Virginia in search of peace and quiet, Dr. Kay Scarpetta journeys to Florida, where a series of baffling murders entangles her in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the most unexpected circumstance of her life.
13) Trace
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 13
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
435 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
14) Predator
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 14
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta and her colleague Pete Marino investigate the case of a man killed by a shotgun blast to the chest, while a woman is trapped in an abandoned house in the South after being kidnapped by an unknown captor.
15) Book of the dead
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 15
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relocating to Charleston after a particularly grueling case, Dr. Kay Scarpetta opens a private forensic pathology practice but is quickly targeted by local politics and a covert saboteur before a series of violent deaths bring her skills into high view.
16) Scarpetta
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 16
Language
English
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Description
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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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
In this provocative thriller, forensic expert Kay Scarpetta is surrounded by familiar faces, yet traveling down the unfamiliar road of fame....
It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta—despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN—to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her...
It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta—despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN—to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her...
18) Port Mortuary
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
The world's bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell presents the extraordinary eighteenth novel in the Kay Scarpetta series, in which Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could ruin her professionally and personally.
Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long...
Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long...
19) Red mist
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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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.
20) The Bone Bed
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
From one of the world’s number top selling crime writers comes the extraordinary twentieth Kay Scarpetta novel.
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...
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...
21) Dust
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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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...
22) Flesh and Blood
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 22
Language
English
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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...
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 23
Language
English
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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.
...24) Chaos
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 24
Language
English
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"When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell."
—New York Times Book Review
[PLEASE BOX:]
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,
...25) Autopsy
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 25
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia as the chief medical examiner, the state where she launched her storied career. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, she's inherited not only an overbearing secretary, but also a legacy of neglect and potential corruption. She and her husband Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, have...
26) Livid
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 26
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta testifies in a case, fumbled by the initial pathologist, concerning a drowned beauty queen whose fiancé is charged with her death. Then the judge's sister is murdered.
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fiancé, who...
27) Unnatural death
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 27
Language
English
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"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."--