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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.
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 4
Language
English
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"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.
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...
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 15
Language
English
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Description
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.
5) 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.
6) Autopsy
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 25
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has returned to Virginia as the chief medical examiner, inheriting not only an overbearing secretary, but a legacy of neglect - and potential corruption. She and her husband Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, have relocated to Old Town Alexandria where she's headquartered five miles from the Pentagon in a post-pandemic world that's been torn by civil and political unrest.After...
7) Livid
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 26
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is the reluctant star witness in a sensational murder trial when she receives shocking news. The judge?s sister has been found dead. At first glance, it appears to be a home invasion, but then why was nothing stolen, and why is the garden strewn with dead plants and insects? Although there is no apparent cause of death, Scarpetta recognises telltale signs of the unthinkable, and she knows the worst is yet to come....
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...
9) The bone bed
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
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