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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to North Carolina to investigate the murder of an eleven-year-old girl, but the evidence does not add up, and she must conduct a gruesome experiment at a remote research facility to find the answers, in a new edition of the classic thriller, complete with a new introduction by the author.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Kay Scarpetta becomes embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom her niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past. In the seventeenth installment of the Kay Scarpetta series, the police are stumped by a particularly baffling crime. After exhausting all leads, authorities implore the help of Scarpetta, now a CNN senior forensic analyst. Presented...
3) Scarpetta
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 16
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind her Charleston forensic pathology practice to accept an assignment in New York City, Kay Scarpetta learns the story of an injured psychiatric patient who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time.
4) The bone bed
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
Language
English
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An eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. She just may be on her own this time--against an enormously powerful and cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the remains of a dismembered woman in a Virginia landfill, she receives an e-mail message from the killer inviting her to download photos of the victim. By the author of Hornet's Nest.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 23
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
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 watches, she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip...
7) Red mist
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings.
8) Trace
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Now freelancing from south Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to her old haunts in Richmond, Virginia, only to encounter a host of baffling and unwelcome surprises as she investigates the death of a fourteen-year-old girl.
9) Black notice
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta of Richmond, Virginia, investigates a body found in a ship's container from Europe. A tattoo on the body sends her flying to Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France, where she learns of a killer known as The Werewolf.
10) Blow fly
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Leaving Virginia in search of peace and quiet, Dr. Kay Scarpetta journeys to Florida, where a series of baffling murders entangles her in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the most unexpected circumstance of her life.
11) Cause of death
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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In Norfolk, Virginia, a reporter is killed while scuba diving in the naval yard. As she investigates, chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta uncovers a plot by a fascist militia to take over an atomic power plant.
12) Flesh and blood
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 22
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"#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...
13) Port mortuary
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover...
14) Dust
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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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...
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