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Series
Samantha Owens novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Dr. Samantha Owens's starting over: new city, new man, new life. She's trying to put some distance between herself and the devastating loss of her husband and children, but the old hurts leave scars. Before she has a chance to settle into her new position in Georgetown University's forensic pathology department, she's called to consult on three murders caused by an unknown pathogen in Metro Washington.
3) Postmortem
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Dr Kay Scarpetta uses forensic medicine to try to catch the killer of five young women.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the hit TNT series—continue their bestselling crime-solving streak.
“Crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best.”—Harlan Coben
Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms...
“Crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best.”—Harlan Coben
Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
Kay Scarpetta's new private forensic lab is not welcomed in Charleston and it doesn't help when her investigation into the death of U.S. tennis star, Drew Martin, connects to the body of an unidentified South Carolina boy.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 27
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"--
8) Livid
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 26
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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 has since been held in jail while awaiting trial. Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case--an investigation previously botched by another forensic pathologist. After a grueling cross-examination...
9) Faithless
Author
Series
Grant County series volume 5
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Description
A victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods--then killed in a horrifying fashion. When medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty, impeccably dressed young woman. And for Sara and Jeffrey, a harrowing journey begins, one that will test their own turbulent relationship and draw dozens of lives into the case.
13) Port mortuary
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Language
English
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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...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Series
Samantha Owens novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
As a medical examiner, Samantha Owen's job is to make a certain sense of death with crisp methodology. But the day the Tennessee floods took her husband and children, the light vanished from her life. She's pulled into a suffocating grief until she receives a peculiar call from Washington D.C. On the end of the line is an old boyfriend's mother, asking Sam to do a second autopsy on her son. Eddie Donovan is officially the victim of a vicious carjacking,...
16) The dollmaker
Author
Series
Forgotten files volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Tessa McGowan teams up with her estranged husband to find out who's kidnapping women and altering their faces to resemble life-size dolls.
17) Chromosome 6
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
When noted underworld figure, Franconi, dies and his body disappears his competitors are blamed. But then the body reappears minus a liver. Jack Stapleton and his colleague find their way to Africa where the mystery deepens.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 24
Language
English
Description
"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, the Cambridge Forensic Center's director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God. Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a...
19) Scarpetta
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue's psychiatric prison ward who specifically asked for her.
20) The bone bed
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Description
In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold. 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. Who is behind...
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