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2) Genesis
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English
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"New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the ripped-from-the-headlines topic of harnessing DNA from ancestry websites to catch a killer in this timely and explosive new medical thriller"--
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Samantha Owens novels volume 1
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English
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As a medical examiner, Samantha Owen's job is to make a certain sense of death with crisp methodology and precision instruments. But the day the Tennessee floods took her husband and children, the light vanished from Sam's life. She's pulled into a suffocating grief no amount of workaholic ardor can penetrate -- until she receives a peculiar call from Washington D.C. On the end of the line is an old boyfriend's mother, asking Sam to do a second autopsy...
4) Livid
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 26
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English
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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
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Series
Samantha Owens novels volume 4
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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Series
Samantha Owens novels volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
Dear Dr. Owens, If you are reading this letter, I am dead and I would be most grateful if you could solve my murder... Forensic pathologist Dr. Samantha Owens thought life was finally returning to normal after she suffered a terrible personal loss. Settling into her new job at Georgetown University, the illusion is shattered when she receives a disturbing letter from a dead man imploring her to solve his murder. There's only one catch. Timothy Savage's...
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Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
They have never seen a murder like it. A talented tattoo artist is using poison instead of ink. His victim is a young woman. And on her skin he's left a message: 'the second'. Drafted in to investigate, NYPD detective Lincoln Rhyme and his associate Amelia Sachs find the scene has been scrubbed of evidence. All except for one trace -- a scrap of paper that connects this case with one they will never forget. And like the Bone Collector before him,...
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Series
Samantha Owens novels volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
364 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides. Dr. Samantha Owens is starting over: new city, new job, new man, new life. She's trying to put some distance between herself and the devastating loss of her husband and children -- but old hurts leave scars. Before she's even unpacked her office at Georgetown University's forensic pathology department, she's called to consult on a case that's rocked the capital and the country. An unknown pathogen...
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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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,...
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Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The only leads in a broad-daylight kidnapping are the account of an eight-year-old girl, some nearly invisible trace evidence and the calling card: a miniature noose left lying on the street. A crime scene this puzzling demands forensic expertise of the highest order. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate. Then the case takes a stranger turn: a recording surfaces of the victim being slowly hanged, his desperate gasps the backdrop...
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Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
411 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
As he prepares to undergo high-risk surgery, paralyzed crime analyst Lincoln Rhyme and his protégé Amelia Sachs set out to solve the murder of a local teen and the kidnapping of two young women.
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Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
424 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
Paralyzed criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his beautiful protegee and lover Amelia Sachs are recruited by the FBI to help locate "the Ghost," a professional human smuggler and killer who is combing New York for two Chinese families who escaped into the city after he blew up the boat on which they were traveling.
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 14
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowboundBoston, one as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team-Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli-to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows, until now.
14) The bone garden
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English
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Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil--human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But whoever this nameless woman was, and whatever befell her, is knowledge lost to another time... Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, Norris Marshall, a talented...
15) The regulator
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
341 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Soldier, Sniper, Secret Service Agent, Regulator. Murphy answers only to the President. His latest assignment comes from President Garfield and is classified Top Secret. A serial killer is murdering railroad workers and settlers in the western states and territories. With nothing but his skill as a hunter and his knowledge of the budding science of forensics, Murphy begins a quest that takes him through a thousand miles of the west as he searches...
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 25
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this twenty-fifth in the ... thriller series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts an ingenious killer who has mastered cutting-edge science for the most nefarious ends"--
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Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs return to New York City to confront a killer terrorizing couples at their happiest -- and most vulnerable. In the early hours of a quiet, weekend morning in Manhattan's Diamond District, a brutal triple murder shocks the city. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs quickly take the case. Curiously, the killer has left behind a half-million dollars' worth of gems at the murder scene, a jewelry store on 47th street. As more crimes...
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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.
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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...
19) Cold, cold bones
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Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 21
Language
English
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"Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-first novel of suspense featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, after receiving a box containing a human eyeball, uncovers a series of gruesome killings eerily reenacting the most shocking of her prior cases"--
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Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 21
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
495 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first...
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