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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A small town in North Carolina is shaken when an 11-year-old girl is brutally murdered. In this crime, Scarpetta sees disturbing echoes of a serial killer's work. Soon the case begins to poison not only Scarpetta, but her colleagues and family as well. Unless she can find the murderer, many more lives will be in danger.{
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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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Young lovers are disappearing in Richmond, Virginia, only to be found later as mutilated corpses. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Dr. Kay Scarpetta must track down a murderer before another missing couple become the next victims.
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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In From Potter's Field, #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell enters the chilling world of Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta—and a bold, brilliant killer from her past. Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Scarpetta immediately recognizes the grisly work of Temple Brooks Gault. She soon realizes that Gault's murders are but a violent chain leading up to one ultimate kill—Scarpetta herself....
5) Black notice
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The death of a stowaway on a Belgian cargo ship leads Dr. Kay Scarpetta to Interpol headquarters, a Paris Morgue and finally home to Virginia.
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel, Patricia Cornwell takes her readers deeper into Kay Scarpetta’s heart and soul than ever before….
Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer puts Virginia’s Chief Medial Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New...
Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer puts Virginia’s Chief Medial Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New...
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
Language
English
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta becomes both investigator and victim when she is contacted over the Internet by a murderer who is threatening to loose a deadly virus on the world.
"Kay Scarpetta finds herself pitted against a possible bioterrorist in this suspense-filled read from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. When a woman turns up dismembered in a landfill, Scarpetta initially suspects the work of a serial killer she’s been tracking....
8) Blow fly
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
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.
9) Trace
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Kay Scarpetta, freelancing from South Florida, returns to Richmond, Virginia, at the request of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a crime, she finds that nothing is as she left it: her former lab is being demolished; the chief isn't really the one who requested her; her former assistant chief has personal problems that he refuses to reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent meddles with the...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"The fourth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. 'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times The fingerprints say the murderer is the man who's just been executed . . . At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue Dr Kay Scarpetta waits for Waddell's body. Preparing to perform a post-mortem...
11) Predator
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta is now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows, until now.
12) Book of the dead
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta opens a private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, only to find herself and her colleagues--Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy--confronted by a horrifying series of crimes that may have an underlying link.
13) Cause of death
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
Language
English
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The mysterious death of diver Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter, and the murder of a morgue assistant driving her car lead medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, her niece, and police captain Pete Marino on the trail of a deadly supremacist group.
14) Scarpetta
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind her Charleston forensic pathology practice to accept an assignment in New York City, Kay Scarpetta learns the story of an injured psychiatric patient who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
Four books in the #1 New York Times bestselling series by the author of Flesh and Blood featuring Kay Scarpetta—"an awesome force in the field of forensic science.” (New York Times Book Review)
Includes The Last Precinct, Predator, Blow Fly, and Book of the Dead.
Includes The Last Precinct, Predator, Blow Fly, and Book of the Dead.
16) Postmortem
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta becomes involved in a strange murder mystery when she tries to discover who is committing a string of gruesome murders, but she soon realizes that someone would rather have her dead than completing her investigation.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
In the seventeenth installment of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series, the police are stumped by a particularly baffling crime. After exhausting all leads, authorities implore the help of Kay Scarpetta, now a CNN analyst. Presented with the opportunity to have her own show, Scarpetta must choose between taking the case and following her television career.
18) Port mortuary
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
When Scarpetta examines a young man' body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked insider 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...
19) Five Scarpetta Novels: Cause of Death / Unnatural Exposure / Point of Origin / Black Notice / Trace
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
“When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell,"—The New York Times Book Review.
From the author of The Bone Bed and Flesh and Blood, This set offers five novels in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring Kay Scarpetta: Cause of Death; Unnatural Exposure; Point of Origin; Black Notice; and Trace.
From the author of The Bone Bed and Flesh and Blood, This set offers five novels in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring Kay Scarpetta: Cause of Death; Unnatural Exposure; Point of Origin; Black Notice; and Trace.
20) Red mist
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
As she investigates the murder of her former deputy chief, Kay Scarpetta discovers links to a series of otherwise unrelated killings, and soon finds herself unraveling a global terror conspiracy.
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