Patricia Cornwell
21) Trace
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia from freelancing in South Florida at the request of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner to solve the murder of a 14-year-old girl, but 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 has personal problems that he refuses to reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent meddles with the case.
22) Red Mist
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 19
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
With high-tension suspense and cutting-edge technology, Patricia Cornwell—the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer—once again proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall in this remarkable novel featuring chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.
On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women...
On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women...
23) Point of origin
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta's investigation of a killer who uses fire to hide his crimes turns personal when she learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, is somehow involved.
24) The front
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Dispatched by the district attorney to a declining Massachusetts neighborhood to address a case related to a new public relations campaign, state investigator Win Garano becomes involved with a loosely organized association of vigilante police officers.
25) Predator
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, working for the National Forensic Academy, joins her colleagues in a bizarre case that leads them on a trail of horrific crimes from Florida to Boston.
26) Black notice
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In this #1 New York Times bestseller Dr. Kay Scarpetta is on a deadly mission that will pull her in two opposite directions: toward protecting her career or toward the truth...
Remains were all that was left of the stowaway. He arrived in Richmond’s Deep Water Terminal—the ghastly cargo of a ship from Belgium. The decomposed body gives Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta no clues to its identity—or the cause...
Remains were all that was left of the stowaway. He arrived in Richmond’s Deep Water Terminal—the ghastly cargo of a ship from Belgium. The decomposed body gives Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta no clues to its identity—or the cause...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 24
Language
English
Description
CHAOS
From the Ancient Greek (χάος or kháos)
A vast chasm or void. Anarchy. The science of unpredictability.
On a late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner, Pete Marino, respond to a call about a dead bicyclist near the Kennedy School of Government. It appears that a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force.
Even before Scarpetta's headquarters has been officially...
Author
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...
29) At risk
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor decides to use a radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder, but his efforts only result in another outbreak of violence.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Patricia Cornwell delivers the newest engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. 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...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A medical examiner and her FBI team investigate the deaths of a mother and child, which leads them to a littleknown research facility--the Body Farm.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
Between August and November 1888, at least seven women were murdered in London's Whitechapel area. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic in the East End for months, and gave rise to the sobriquet that was to become shorthand for a serial killer-Jack the Ripper. For over a hundred years the murders have remained among the world's greatest unsolved crimes. Using her forensic skills, Patricia Cornwell has applied the discipline of twenty-first-century...
Author
Series
Captain Chase novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
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. A spatter of dried blood, a missing security badge, a suspicious suicide-- a series of disturbing clues point to Calli's...
34) Spin
Author
Series
Captain Chase novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister - as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between...
35) Unnatural death
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 27
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
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."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as a painter in Victorian London. But the ghoulish nature of his art as well as extensive evidence points to another name, one that's left its bloody mark on the pages of history: Jack the Ripper. Cornwell has collected never-before-seen archival material including a rare mortuary photo, personal correspondence and a will with a mysterious autopsy clause and applied cutting-edge forensic...
37) Cause of death
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1992], c1991
Language
English
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English