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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,...
42) 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
Katya Hijazi novels volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Women in Saudi Arabia are expected to lead quiet lives circumscribed by Islamic law and tradition. But Katya, one of the few women in the Jeddah medical examiner's office, is determined to make her work mean something. When the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on the beach, the city's detectives are ready to dismiss the case as another unsolvable murder. Only Katya is convinced that the victim can be identified and her killer found. She calls...
44) La última viuda
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
La autora bestseller del New York Times, Karin Slaughter, regresa con otro thriller electrizante en la querida serie de misterio de Will Trent, esta vez enfrentando a Will y Sara contra un misterioso grupo que planea desatar una epidemia mortal. Gillian Flynn dice que Karin Slaughter es "simplemente una de las mejores escritoras de suspenso que trabajan hoy" y Michael Connelly declara que "sus personajes, su trama y su ritmo no tienen rival entre...
Author
Series
Jessie Teska novels volume 1
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
“Scalpel sharp.”Kathy Reichs. A young rookie medical examiner. A suspicious case. An underworld plot only she saw coming. From the New York Times bestselling authors of Working Stiff. For San Franciscos newest medical examiner, Dr. Jessie Teska, it was supposed to be a fresh start. A new job in a new city. A way to escape her own dark past. Instead she faces a chilling discovery when an opioid-overdose case contains hints of something more sinister....
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
Language
English
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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....
47) The god gene
Author
Series
Ice sequence volume 2
Publisher
Forge, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Rick's brother, Keith, a prominent zoologist at NYU, walks out of his office one day and disappears. The only clue they have are his brother's book, which mentions "the God Gene." A million or so years ago, a gene designated hsa-mir-3998 appeared as if by magic from the junk DNA of the hominids who eventually evolved into Homo sapiens. It became a key player in brain developmentspecifically creativityand laymen started calling it "the God Gene." Keith...
48) Genesis
Author
Language
English
Description
Investigating the suspicious death of a social worker, Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery makes the controversial decision to use genealogic DNA databases to identify a mysterious killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From the world's #1 bestselling writer - 3 pulse-pounding novels in one book!THE MOORES ARE MISSING with Loren D. Estleman: The Moore family just vanished from their home without telling a soul. A last-minute vacation? A kidnapping? A run for their lives? You'll never see the truth coming.THE HOUSEWIFE with Sam Hawken: Maggie Denning is a former chief detective adjusting to a quiet life in the suburbs with her family. But when the woman next door...
50) 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.
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