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Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 26
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling installment of the #1 bestselling series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself a reluctant star witness in a sensational televised murder trial causing chaos in Old Town Alexandria with the threat of violent protests.
Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is the reluctant star witness in a sensational murder trial when she receives shocking news. The judge’s sister has been found dead. At first
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 11
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 26
Physical Desc
449 p. : 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Torn between a desire to clear her name and the instinct of a wounded animal to turn against even its would-be rescuers, Kay Scarpetta sifts through the forensic evidence that seems to link Chandonne, who she killed in self-defense, to other horrific events in her past, up to and including Wesley's murder. Physical analysis, however, will not be enough to right her up-ended world. Instead, Kay must rely on the strategic support of her niece, cofounder...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
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. That film clip and then others sent soon after raise dangerous legal implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her confused,...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
496 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A treacherous path from Scarpetta's past merges with the high tech highway she now finds herself on. We travel back to the beginning of her professional career, when she enlisted in the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt and found herself ensnared in a gruesome case of what seemed to be vicious, racially motivated hate crimes against two Americans in South Africa. Now, more than twenty years and many career successes later, her secret military...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kay must find a killer who uses fire to mask his crimes and when she learns that her old nemesis is somehow involved, the investigation becomes personal.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 22
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 24
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm
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. Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 19
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
498 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people as far away as California seem unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 20
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
463 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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. Who is behind...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 24
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
p2016
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (13 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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. Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 1
Publisher
Impress Mystery
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
333 p. : 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalized and strangled in their own bedroom. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical officer, is awakened at 2.33 am, she knows the news is bad: there is a fourth victim. And she fears now for those that will follow unless she can dig up new forensic evidence to aid the...
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