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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.
2) 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.
Author
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 27
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 11
Language
English
Formats
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...
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...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 6
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
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 with the FBI, visits the New York City morgue on Christmas morning, where she must use her forensic expertise to give a name to the nameless—a difficult...
8) 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
Kay Scarpetta volume 17
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
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,...
10) 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 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Young lovers are disappearing in Richmond, Virginia, only to be found later as mutilated corpses. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Dr. Kay Scarpetta must track down a murderer before another missing couple become the next victims.
12) Port mortuary
Author
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...
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