Patricia Daniels Cornwell
1) The bone bed
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English
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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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.
4) Red mist
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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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.
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"#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,...
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English
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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.
9) The front
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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10) Book of the dead
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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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) Predator
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Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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12) Port mortuary
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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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.
13) Trace
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Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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14) Scarpetta
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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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.
15) At risk
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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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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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
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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...
18) Dust
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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
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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...
19) Autopsy
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William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia as the chief medical examiner, the state where she launched her storied career. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, she's inherited not only an overbearing secretary, but also a legacy of neglect and potential corruption. She and her husband Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, have...
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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In the aftermath of a sabotaged NASA rocket launch gone, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister, as well as the startling truth of who they really are, and now with a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out ofcontrol, Calli embarks on a frantic search for the missing link between the sabotaged rocket launch and her predetermined destiny--a search that someone else is very interested in stopping.