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Patricia Cornwell
1) Autopsy
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 25
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...
2) Chaos
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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,...
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Deutsch
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Der grausame Mord an der elfjährigen Emily Steiner schockiert die Kleinstadt Black Mountain im Westen von North Carolina. Die örtliche Polizei hatte es bislang selten mit Mord oder sexuellem Missbrauch von Kindern zu tun - und noch niemals mit einem Fall, auf den beides zutraf. Die Menschen dort kommen nicht mal auf die Idee, nachts ihre Haustüren abzuschließen. Gerichtsmedizinerin Kay Scarpetta, die in Virginia in einem ähnlichen Fall ermittelt,...
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Language
Deutsch
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Seit neun Jahren wartet Ronnie Joe Waddel im Todestrakt auf seine Hinrichtung auf dem elektrischen Stuhl. Während vor dem Staatsgefängnis von Virginia noch die Gegner der Todesstrafe protestieren, obduziert Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta zweiundzwanzig Minuten nach seinem Tod Waddels Leiche. Kurz darauf bekommt sie es mit dem grausamen Mord an einem Dreizehnjährigen zu tun - und das Verbrechen trägt Waddels Handschrift. Ist der Mörder...
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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.
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Series
Publisher
B DE BOLSILLO
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
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Segundo título protagonizado por la doctora Kay Scarpetta, la continuación de una de las series de novela criminal más exitosas de todos los tiempos.
La Biblioteca Cornwell presenta la segunda novela de su serie emblemática protagonizada por la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta, premio Sherlock en 1999 al mejor detective creado por un autor estadounidense.
Alguien acecha a la escritora Beryl Madison. Alguien que la espía, que observa todos sus movimientos...
7) Polvo
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Series
Publisher
B DE BOOKS
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
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Description
Un cadáver envuelto en una tela poco común ha sido descubierto en el campus del MIT...
Otro nuevo caso para la Doctora Kay Scarpetta.
Kay Scarpetta, directora del Centro Forense de Cambridge, Massachusetts, ha vuelto a casa después de trabajar en la escena de uno delos peores asesinatos en masa de la historia de Estados Unidos, cuando el agente Pete Marino la despierta a una hora intempestiva. Un cadáver envuelto en una tela poco común ha sido...
8) Post Mórtem
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Series
Publisher
B DE BOLSILLO
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
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Un thriller protagonizado por la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta.
Un brutal asesino siembra el pánico en Richmond, Virginia, al amparo de la noche. Tres mujeres han aparecido salvajemente asesinadas en sus propios dormitorios. El responsable de estos crímenes deja muy pocas pistas y actúa siempre los sábados de madrugada. De manera que cuando la doctora Kay Scarpetta, jefa del Departamento de Medicina Legal, recibe una llamada a las dos y media...
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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...
10) Unnatural death
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 27
Language
English
Description
Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta's career. In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell's #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, 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...
11) Port mortuary
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Language
English
Description
When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside 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...
12) Trace
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 13
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...
13) Book of the dead
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 15
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
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 22
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the next enthralling thriller in her high-stakes series starring Kay Scarpetta--a complex tale involving a serial sniper who strikes chillingly close to the forensic sleuth herself.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...
15) Blow fly
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta steps over the threshold of a new life after her work as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner comes to a jarring end.
16) The bone bed
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
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...
17) Dust
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 21
Language
English
Description
"The new Kay Scarpetta novel . . . . After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too...
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 17
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta becomes embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom her niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past. In the seventeenth installment of the Kay Scarpetta series, the police are stumped by a particularly baffling crime. After exhausting all leads, authorities implore the help of Scarpetta, now a CNN senior forensic analyst....
19) Scarpetta
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City examining an injured man at the psychiatric prison ward. Oscar Bane, chained and handcuffed, had specifically asked for Scarpetta and as the interview begins, the story Oscar relates is the most peculiar tale Kay has ever heard
20) Black notice
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
A cargo ship arriving at Richmond's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. The autopsy performed by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to INTERPOL's headquarters in Lyon, France....