Patricia Daniels Cornwell
1) The bone bed
Author
Language
English
Description
Receiving a grisly communication in the wake of an eminent Canadian paleontologist's disappearance, Kay Scarpetta investigates the discovery of a body in Boston Harbor and clues about other unsolved cases, a situation that makes Scarpetta wonder who she can trust.
2) At risk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A Massachusetts D. A. who is running for governor looks for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology to fight crime, but when a shocking piece of violence intervenes, her state investigator is not so sure it is a random event.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 22
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Scarpetta finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper. The shots seem impossible, yet they are so perfect they cause instant death. The victims appear to have had nothing in common, and there is no pattern to indicate where the killer will strike next. First New Jersey, then Massachusetts, and then the murky depths off the coast of South Florida, where Scarpetta investigates...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 27
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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 a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why"--
5) Quantum
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Language
English
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Description
"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 blizzard and government shutdown could provide the perfect cover for sabotage, with deadly consequences. As it turns out, the danger is worse than she thought. A spatter of dried blood, a missing security badge, a suspicious...
6) Scarpetta
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
From America's #1 bestselling crime writers comes an extraordinary #1 New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta novel. Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she...
7) Livid
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta testifies in a case, fumbled by the initial pathologist, concerning a drowned beauty queen whose fiancé is charged with her death. Then the judge's sister is murdered.
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fiancé, who...
8) Blow fly
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The Twelfth Dr Kay Scarpetta Novel. Dr Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in quest of peace but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida, where she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
Filled with tension and continual surprises, Unnatural Exposure is a thrilling chapter in Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta's life--and a triumph for #1 New York Times best-selling author Patricia Cornwell. The body of an elderly woman is found dismembered in a Virginia landfill. Scarpetta initially believes the clues mirror that of a serial killer she's tracked before, but upon further investigation, she discovers puzzling pox-like eruptions...
11) Predator
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
12) Red mist
Author
Series
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.
13) 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
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this classic forensic thriller.
Little Emily Steiner left a church meeting late one afternoon and strolled toward home along a lakeside path; a week later, her nude body was discovered, bound in blaze-orange duct tape. Called by the North Carolina authorities, forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta recognizes similarities to the gruesome...
15) Codigo negro
Author
Publisher
Editorial Atlantida
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
Español
17) Spin
Author
Series
Captain Chase volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Captain Calli Chase races against time to thwart a plot that leaves the fate of humanity hanging in the balance"--
18) Hornet's nest
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this first title of a new mystery series, Cornwell introduces us to a dynamic trio of crime-solver in Charlotte, North Carolina: Andy Brazil, an eager young reporter; Judy Hammer, the city's police chief; and Virginia West. Hammer's deputy and a genuine head-turner. They're after a serial killer who pulls male out-of-towners from their rental cars, then mutilates, spray paints and shoots them, in that order. What the trio uncovers jolts them like...
19) Black notice
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta is taken an ocean's length away from home. A cargo ship arriving from Belgium at Richmond's Deep Water Terminal is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway.
20) Postmortem
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Four young women have been found murdered-tortured and strangled in their own beds-all victims of the same brilliant monster. Using a skilled hand and the latest technology in forensic medicine, Kay Scarpetta begins the process of gathering the microscopic clues the latest battered body has to give.