Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to North Carolina to investigate the murder of an eleven-year-old girl, but the evidence does not add up, and she must conduct a gruesome experiment at a remote research facility to find the answers, in a new edition of the classic thriller, complete with a new introduction by the author.
2) The bone bed
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
An eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. She just may be on her own this time--against an enormously powerful and cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.
Author
Series
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,...
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 28
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had an intense love affair with Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship. The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano's skin is strangely red. Scarpetta's niece Lucy believes he was...
7) Spin
Author
Series
Captain Chase novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister - as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between...
Author
Series
Captain Chase novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the eve of a top secret space mission, Captain Calli Chase detects a tripped alarm in the tunnels deep below a NASA research center. A NASA pilot, quantum physicist, and cybercrime investigator, Calli knows that a looming blizzard and government shutdown could provide the perfect cover for sabotage, with deadly consequences.
9) Autopsy
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 25
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
New chief medical examiner and forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta is given a highly classified case involving two scientists who were found dead on a private space laboratory in the latest addition to the series following Chaos.
10) Livid
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta testifies in a case, fumbled by the initial pathologist, concerning a drowned beauty queen whose fiancé is charged with her death. Then the judge's sister is murdered.
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fiancé, who...
11) Unnatural death
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why"--
12) Port mortuary
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover...
13) Blow fly
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
14) Red mist
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 19
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
15) The front
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Dispatched by the district attorney to a declining Massachusetts neighborhood to address a case related to a new public relations campaign, state investigator Win Garano suspects a deeper agenda and becomes involved with a loosely organized association of vigilante police officers, in a case during which he is assisted by his intuitive grandmother.
16) Book of the dead
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 15
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta seeks to start life anew by moving to Charleston, South Carolina, and opening a private practice, but it's only a matter of time before she is investigating another string of death.
19) Postmortem
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
20) Dust
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...