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O'Malley volume 3
Language
English
Description
Women are missing. Amy Ireland disappeared 20 years ago without a trace. For U.S. Marshal Quinn Diamond, it's a case that has never closed. He's still searching, determined to learn the truth. Lisa O'Malley is a forensic pathologist who has worked the Chicago crime scenes for years. Lisa and Quinn link up to discover the truth. While Lisa understands death and darkness all too well, she's about to discover love and the Resurrection. --Publisher
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.
3) 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.
4) 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...
Author
Series
Samantha Owens volume 3
Language
English
Description
After suffering a terrible personal loss, Dr. Samantha Owens is settling into a new job at Georgetown University when she recieves a letter from a dead man asking to solve his murder. As she investigates the man's death, she is pulled into a twenty-year-old mystery involving a kidnapped child as well as the present-day death of Timothy Savage.
6) 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...
7) Grave goods
Author
Series
Mistress of the art of death volume 3
Language
English
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Description
When the bodies of two people are discovered in the remains of an arson fire that destroyed Glastonbury Abbey, Adelia Aguilar, Mistress of the Art of Death, is ordered by Henry II to determine if one of the sets of bones belongs to the legendary Celtic savior Arthur.
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...
9) The bone bed
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 20
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
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....
Author
Series
Gwen Marcey volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Forensic artist Gwen Marcey is between jobs when she accepts temporary work in Pikeville, Kentucky—a small town facing big-city crime. But before Gwen can finish her first drawing of the serial rapist who is on the loose, the latest witness vanishes. Just like all the others. Gwen suspects a connection between the rapist and the “accidental” deaths that are happening around town, but the local sheriff has little interest in her theories. --Publisher...
11) Known
Author
Series
Bone secrets volume 5
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
After a brutal snowstorm in the Cascade Mountains, Chris Jacobs discovers two things he never expected to see: the charred shell of a cabin, and Gianna Trask and her sixteen-year-old daughter huddled in an SUV, having barely escaped from their burning vacation rental. Forced to wait out the blizzard in their rescuer's retreat, medical examiner Gianna Trask wonders if her hidden past has finally caught up with her. When a body is found in the destroyed...
12) Cruel & unusual
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 4
Publisher
Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
"Killing me won't kill the beast" are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can't explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell's fingerprints on another crime scene -- after she'd performed his autopsy. If this is some sort of game, Scarpetta seems to be the target. And if the next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and unusual...
13) Scarpetta
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk -- and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the...
14) Flesh and blood
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 22
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
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
Temperance Brennan volume 19
Language
English
Description
It's sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Temperance Brennan, still recovering from neurosurgery following an aneurysm, is battling nightmares, migraines, and what she thinks might be hallucinations when she receives a series of mysterious text messages, each containing a new picture of a corpse that is missing its face and hands. Immediately, she's anxious to know who the dead man is, and why the images were sent to her. An identified corpse...
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