Patricia Daniels Cornwell
1) The bone bed
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Series
Language
English
Description
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. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own this time--against an enormously powerful and cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta--now a senior forensic analyst for CNN--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.
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Language
English
Description
Medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is anticipating a quiet New Year's Eve when she is called to investigate the death of a reporter found in the murky waters of a Navy shipyard. Her findings about the cause of death sets the FBI onto the story the dead man was following, leading Scarpetta and everyone involved into the hands of a cult fanatic.
7) Red mist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta questions inmates at the Georgia Prison for Women looking to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier.
8) The front
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The "book of the dead" is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have 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...
11) Scarpetta
Author
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.
13) At risk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor wants to use some radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder. The result? A new round of violence.
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. 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,...
15) Port mortuary
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta, stationed at Dover Air Force Base to learn about CT-assisted virtual autopsy, finds her personal and professional life threatened when the body of a young man is found near her home and she uncovers evidence that links his death to a potential conspiracy to cause mass casualties.
18) Black notice
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When a dead body is found in the cargo hold of a ship arriving from Belgium, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called in to investigate and she soon finds herself trying to outwit a brutal killer who calls himself The Werewolf.
19) Point of origin
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta's investigation of a killer who uses fire to hide his crimes turns personal when she learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, is somehow involved.