Patricia Daniels Cornwell
1) Livid
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 26
Language
English
Description
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 fianč, who has since been held in jail while awaiting trial. Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case, an investigation previously botched by another forensic pathologist. After a grueling cross-examination...
2) Quantum
Author
Series
Captain Chase volume 1
Language
English
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 suicide--a...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 25
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has returned to Virginia as the chief medical examiner. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, she's inherited an overbearing secretary and a legacy of neglect and possible corruption. She and her husband Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, have relocated to Old Town Alexandria where she's headquartered five miles from the Pentagon in...
4) Spin
Author
Series
Captain Chase volume 2
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 27
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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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.
6) Chaos
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 24
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
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, the Cambridge Forensic Center's director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God.
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Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 22
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
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 a kids' game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there's been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 23
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Receiving a video of her niece taken 20 years earlier that reveals disturbing secrets, Dr. Kay Scarpetta becomes increasingly isolated as she realizes the dangerous legal implications of her niece's private life.
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Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of "virtual autopsy" – a revolutionary new procedure. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice. A young man drops dead, apparently from a heart condition. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are indications that he may have been alive when he was locked inside the cooler. When the revolutionary 3D radiology...
10) Dust
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts, when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field and physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely weird homicides in Washington, D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI husband has been deployed to help capture a serial killer dubbed the Capital...
11) The bone bed
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 20
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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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. --Publisher....
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Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 11
Language
English
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Description
Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer puts Virginia’s Chief Medial Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past. A formidable prosecutor, a female assistant district attorney from New York, is brought into the case—and Scarpetta must...
13) Predator
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 14
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta and her colleague Pete Marino investigate the case of a man killed by a shotgun blast to the chest, while a woman is trapped in an abandoned house in the South after being kidnapped by an unknown captor.
14) Trace
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Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, the city that once turned its back on her, and finds that nothing is as she expected. A young girl is dead, and only the smallest pieces of evidence are left behind - traces that only the most thorough hunters can identify. It's up to Scarpetta to follow the twisting leads and track the strange details in order to make the dead speak - and reveal the sad truth that may be more than she can bear.
15) Red mist
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Against the advice of her FBI Agent husband, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is on her way to a Georgia Prison for Women where she will be meeting an inmate who is the biological mother of a killer. She hopes to learn more about the death of her deputy chief six months earlier and if his death is connected to a string of present day killings.
16) The front
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Series
Winston Garano volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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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.
17) At risk
Author
Series
Winston Garano volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Massachusetts state investigator Winston Garano is asked to solve a twenty-year-old murder case in Tennessee to make his boss who's running for governor look good but before he can start on the case, a violent attack changes everything.
18) The body farm
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for Virginia, investigates the sex murder of a girl by an escaped convict. The probe requires exhuming the body for a second autopsy. Lots of information on bodies and autopsies. By the author of Cruel and Unusual.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 17
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast,...
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Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 8
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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Description
Returning home from Ireland, where she had been called in to examine the remains of a murder victim whose body was marked by the signature of a cunning serial killer, medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is shocked when another body turns up, this time in a Virginia landfill.