Patricia Cornwell
1) The bone bed
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 20
Language
English
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First, a leading dinosaur hunter goes missing from a dig in Canada: next, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication which leads her to believe that the disappearance may be her next case. Kate must now rely solely on her own instincts to catch a cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 15
Language
English
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The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log in which all cases are entered. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta moves to South Carolina and opens a private forensic pathology practice. A string of brutal killings shatters her dreams of a quiet life.
3) Red mist
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 19
Language
English
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Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. Against advice, she is determined to hear this woman out - she believes the prisoner may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings.
Author
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Scarpetta volume 17
Language
English
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The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events.
6) Predator
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 14
Language
English
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Dr Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowbound Boston; one that at first appears 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,...
7) Postmortem
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedrooms. But there is no pattern. Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical officer, now fears for those who will follow.
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 4
Language
English
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Description
"Killing me won't kill the beast," are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can't explain how Dr Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell's fingerprints on another crime scene - after she'd performed his autopsy. If this is some sort of game, Scarpetta seems to be the target. And if the next victim is someone she knows, the punishment will be cruel and unusual.
9) Black notice
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 10
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The decomposed remains of a stowaway lead Dr Kay Scarpetta on an international search to Interpol?s headquarters in Lyon, France - and on a mission that will pull her in two opposite directions: toward protecting her career or toward the truth.
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 11
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer puts Virginia?s Chief Medial Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past. A formidable prosecutor, a female assistant district attorney from New York, is brought into the case - and Scarpetta must struggle...
11) Point of origin
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 9
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A farmhouse destroyed by fire. A body amongst the ruins. Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds a body which tells a story of a violent and grisly murder. The fire has come at the same time as another, even more incendiary horror: Carrie Grethen, a killer who nearly...
12) Hornet's nest
Author
Series
Andy Brazil volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The gritty, heroic life of big-city police is seen through the eyes of three leading crime fighters from Charlotte, North Carolina - Police Chief Judy Hammer, Deputy Chief Virginia West, and ambitious young reporter Andy Brazil. Virginia West likes her boss. But when a number of visiting businessmen are murdered in her city by a maniac with a penchant for painting his victims bright orange, she objects to his edict that a rookie reporter accompany...
13) Isle of dogs
Author
Series
Andy Brazil volume 3
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Chaos breaks loose when the governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be painted on all streets and highways, and warns that speeders will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. But the eccentric island of Tangier, fourteen miles off the coast of Virginia in Chesapeake Bay, responds by declaring war on its own state. Judy Hammer, newly installed as the superintendent of the Virginia State Police, and Andy Brazil, a state trooper and...
14) Blow fly
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 12
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In Blow Fly, Kay Scarpetta stands at the threshold of a new life after her work as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to a jarring end. At the close of The Last Precinct, she knew she would have to leave Richmond if she were to find any peace. She feared that she was about to be fired by the governor. More alarming, she was hounded in the media and in the courtroom, for what some claimed was her involvement in the murder of a deputy police...
15) Trace
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 13
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Dr Kay Scarpetta returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Richmond, Virginia?s recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he needs Scarpetta?s 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...
16) All that remains
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 3
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president's newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr Kay Scarpetta knows time is short. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Kay must draw upon her own personal resources to track down a murderer who...
17) Southern cross
Author
Series
Andy Brazil volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Patricia Cornwell has a sixth sense about the men and women in blue. In Hornet's Nest, her page-turning novel about crime and police in Charlotte, North Carolina, Cornwell moved behind the badges of these real-life heroes to uncover flesh-and-blood characters who strode through her pages to reveal vulnerable, passionate, brave, sometimes doubting, always fascinating figures. In Southern Cross, Cornwell takes us even closer to the personal and professional...
18) Body of evidence
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A reclusive author, Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls - or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic evidence - while unwittingly edging closer to a killer waiting in the shadows.
19) Autopsy
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The legendary Patricia Cornwell is back with her No.1 bestselling, groundbreaking series following Kay ScarpettaKay Scarpetta is back, and this time she?s right in the path of danger?World-renowned forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta and her husband Benton, a psychologist with the US Secret Service, have returned to Virginia. They are headquartered five miles from the Pentagon in a post-pandemic world that?s been torn by civil and political unrest.Just...
20) Port mortuary
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long before these skills need to be put into practice. A young man drops dead, apparently from a heart condition, eerily close to Scarpetta's home.