Patricia Cornwell
41) Blow fly
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
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.
42) The bone bed
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta tries to find out who has been stalking pairs of young lovers in the woodlands of Virginia.
44) Point of origin
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
The clues to a series of remorseless killings go up in smoke--and only Kay Scarpetta can find them.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
A crime story featuring Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta and a convicted murderer sentenced to death in the electric chair.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
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?
47) Body of evidence
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
48) Dust
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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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...
49) At risk
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Massachusetts D. A. who is running for governor looks for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology to fight crime, but when a shocking piece of violence intervenes, her state investigator is not so sure it is a random event.
50) Autopsy
Author
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...
51) Livid
Author
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...
52) Chaos
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 24
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a hot late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner, Pete Marina, respond to a call about a dead bicyclist. It appears that a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force..."--
53) 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
Author
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 17
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
492 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
412 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
57) Depraved heart
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 23
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
466 pages ; 24 cm
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...
58) 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.
59) Flesh and blood
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 22
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Scarpetta finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper. Then she comes face to face with shocking evidence that implicates her techno-genius niece, Lucy, Scarpetta's own flesh and blood.
60) Cause of death
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English