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21) The other Mrs
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to small-town Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. The murder rocks their tiny coastal island, but no one is more shaken than Sadie. But it's not just Morgan's death that has Sadie on edge. And as the eyes of suspicion turn toward the new family in town, Sadie is drawn deeper into the mystery of what really happened that dark and deadly night....
22) The other twin
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
297 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Paige, a renowned oncologist fighting against her own life-threatening medical condition, meets makeup artist Gwen St. James, a woman with a mysterious past, in the hospital, a bond of friendship is quickly forged, but the two women soon discover that they share an even more powerful bond.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
465 p. : 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in quest of peace but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida. There she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life.
Author
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.
Language
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian-born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness-is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations-looking, listening, touching, and asking-something a man can never do with a female patient. From...
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry his cousin, the king of Sicily. Henry chooses Adelia Aguilar, his Mistress of the Art of Death, to travel with the princess and safeguard her health. But when people in the wedding procession are murdered, Adelia and Rowley must discover the killer's identity . . . and whether he is stalking the princess or Adelia herself.
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 2
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a physician operating among London's poor in the early years of the 20th century, Dr. Maya Witherspoon has two strikes against her her gender and her status as the half-breed daughter of an Englishman and a Hindu woman. The magic she possesses, however, assists her not only in her work but also in fighting off an assassin bent on destroying her through the use of dark powers.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 13
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
435 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isn't the one who requested her after all; her old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he won't reveal; and a glamorous...
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Series
Language
English
Description
London, 1887
When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father has died, she immediately leaves America and returns home to see to her family's estate. Among her father's possessions is a box of her late mother's letters, which feels like a balm to Charlotte's grief-stricken heart. But the letters contain some inconsistencies that suggest there was more to her mother's death than Charlotte had been told....
When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father has died, she immediately leaves America and returns home to see to her family's estate. Among her father's possessions is a box of her late mother's letters, which feels like a balm to Charlotte's grief-stricken heart. But the letters contain some inconsistencies that suggest there was more to her mother's death than Charlotte had been told....
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (ca. 11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being shot and on the run, Rafe McCay takes Dr. Annie Parker as a hostage to tend to his wounds. Running from bounty hunters, they end up deep in the Arizona mountains. Though Annie is very lonely, this isn't exactly the kind of companionship she'd hoped for.
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Deep within the peaceful heart of Amish country, a life-or-death emergency shatters a quiet world to its core.Number-oneNew York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs delivers a riveting story that challenges our deepest-held beliefs. Caught between two worlds, Caleb Stoltz is bound by a deathbed promise to raise his orphaned niece and nephew in Middle Grove, where life revolves around family, farm, faith--and long-held suspicions about outsiders....
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 15
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The "book of the dead" is the morgue log, a ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to take on a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace, not only personally and professionally but geographically. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 17
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
494 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta—despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN—to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who...
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
Lightning strikes trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Katherine Barrett, a dedicated young doctor, receives a terrified phone call from her brother, TJ. He is running away to Mexico to save himself and their family from an unnamed killer. He warns her not to come after him and not to go to the police, as there is no one she can trust. But Katherine realizes there might be someone she can trust… She turns to her former high school sweetheart Jake Monroe — the man whose heart she broke a decade earlier....
38) Observer
Author
Publisher
The Story Plant
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Caroline Soames-Watkins's star has been on the rise. But when she accuses a superior of sexual misconduct, the Twitterstorm that follows upends her career. With few professional options and an impoverished sister with a disabled child to support, Caro is willing to consider a mysterious proposal from her great-uncle, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Samuel Watkins. Sam Watkins has invested untold sums of money to build a medical facility in the...
39) Trace evidence
Author
Series
Evelyn James volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Evelyn James, forensic pathologist for the Cleveland Medical Examiner, is called out to the river's edge to take a look at the body of a girl, recently pulled from the water. A Caucasian, the dark marbling of decomposition had spread through her limbs like poison. After years in the job, Evelyn is used to such things -- to the sight of victims washed up by poverty or grief -- but this is quite different, and much nastier. Her feet had been encased...
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...
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