Patricia Cornwell
21) Trace
Author
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...
22) The body farm
Author
Series
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.{
23) 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 23
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...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 24
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning--except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Examines the century-old series of murders that terrorized London in the 1880s, drawing on research, state-of-the-art forensic science, and insights into the criminal mind to reveal the true identity of the infamous Jack the Ripper.
27) Blow fly
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
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....
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
30) Cause of death
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
31) Point of origin
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Virginia's chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta matches wits with a wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes. The case begins with a fire in which many horses die and the embers yield a human body.
32) Bone bed
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
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....
34) Spin
Author
Series
Captain Chase novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of a sabotaged NASA rocket launch gone, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister, as well as the startling truth of who they really are, and now with a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, Calli embarks on a frantic search for the missing link between the sabotaged rocket launch and her predetermined destiny--a search that someone else is very interested in stopping.
36) Isle of dogs
Author
Series
Andy Brazil novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chaos breaks loose when the governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be painted on all streets and highways, and warns that speeders will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. But the eccentric island of Tangier, fourteen miles off the coast of Virginia in Chesapeake Bay, responds by declaring war on its own state. Judy Hammer, newly installed as the superintendent of the Virginia State Police, and Andy Brazil, a state trooper and...
37) Quantum
Author
Series
Captain Chase novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
International bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers pulse-pounding thrills in the first book in a series featuring a brilliant and unusual new heroine, cutting-edge cybertechnology, and stakes that are astronomically high. On the eve of a top secret space mission, Captain Calli Chase detects a tripped alarm in the tunnels deep below a NASA research center. A NASA pilot, quantum physicist, and cybercrime investigator, Calli knows that a looming...
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wyrick & Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"Virginia's chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her friends and family come together for the holidays to cook and celebrate in a special novella for the author's many fans that includes Christmas recipes and photographs."
40) Southern cross
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A former police chief finds herself summoned to Richmond to clean up scandalous conditions.