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2) Postmortem
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 1
Language
English
Description
Discover the "dazzling...fascinating" (Los Angeles Times) forensic thriller that launched the New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta series from #1 bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell.
Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer...
Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Pathologist Kay Scarpetta seeks to identify the killer of five young couples, all murdered within a 50-mile radius of Williamsburg.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
When an executed murderer's fingerprints turn up at a new crime scene, Kay Scarpetta investigates. Prepare for the kind of riveting suspense this best-selling author delivers so well.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
A rural North Carolina town is shaken by the brutal murder of eleven-year-old Emily Steiner, a crime reminiscent of the handiwork of a serial killer who has eluded the FBI for years. Called in to investigate, Kay Scarpetta is joined by her ingenious, rebellious, and very annoying niece, Lucy, an FBI intern with a promising future in Quantico's computer engineering facility. To find the answers needed to solve Emily's murder, Kay must conduct a grisly...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this classic forensic thriller.
An unidentified nude female sits propped against a fountain in Central Park. There are no signs of struggle. When Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her colleagues Benton Wesley and Pete Marino arrive on the scene, they instantly recognize the signature of serial killer Temple Brooks Gault. Scarpetta, on assignment...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia's Elizabeth River, a scuba diver's body is discovered near the Inactive Naval Shipyard. As the police begin searching for clues, the wallet of investigative report Ted eddings is found. Unnerved by the possible identity of the victim,...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Smithmark
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
822 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
Language
English
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.
11) Point of origin
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
This dazzling thriller pits Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta against greater odds than ever before. Convicted serial killer Carrie Grethen has escaped from psychiatric hospital with plans for revenge. Wary and shaken, Scarpetta also has to investigate the death by fire of an unknown woman. The post-mortem reveals that the woman was stabbed before the fire was started, and soon Scarpetta and her colleagues are called out to the scene of another...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wyrick & Co
Pub. Date
©1998
Physical Desc
91 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta invites her friends over to celebrate the day after Christmas, and each one brings their own favorite dish, including eggnog, cookies, and pizza stew.
13) Black notice
Author
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....
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 11
Language
English
Description
The eleventh Scarpetta novel, in which the Chief Medical Examiner is under a Grand Jury investigation for murder. She knows she's being framed and she no longer knows who she can trust… Physically and psychologically bruised by her encounter with the killer Chandonne, Dr Kay Scarpetta has to leave her home in the hands of the police team investigating the attack. She finds shelter with an old friend, Anna Zenner, but it is not the haven of security...
15) Blow fly
Author
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.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2003, ©1991
Physical Desc
631 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An omnibus edition containing the first two novels in the series featuring the crime-solving exploits of Dr. Kay Scarpetta includes Postmortem, where the medical examiner races against time to find the forensic evidence to stop a serial killer, and Body of Evidence, in which she probes the brutal murder of a reclusive writer.
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 3, 4
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
664 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
18) Trace
Author
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...
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 3-4
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2005], ©1992, 1993.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
All that remains: A murderer is killing young couples, leaving only a single playing card as a clue. Dr. Kay Scarpetta must solve the mystery of the abandoned cars, corpses in the forest, and another missing couple. Cruel & unusual: Dr. Kay Scarpetta examines a convicted killer, executed in Virginia's electric chair, in what should have been a routine procedure. But the murders of everyone connected to him continue after his death. Kate comes under...
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 3, 4
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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