Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
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 medical examiner 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
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
1994.
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.
24) 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.
25) Black notice
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A high-stakes Kay Scarpetta novel with an intrigue that will take Kay an ocean's length away from home.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip...
28) Hornet's nest
Author
Series
Andy Brazil novels volume 1
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Provides a look inside the Charlotte police department by following the experiences of three members of the force and witnessing the tension, heartbreak, and heroics of everyday police work.
29) 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...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta is mandated to investigate the four-hundred-year-old violent death of one of America's first setters at Jamestown.
34) The front
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
District Attorney Monique Lamont sends Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano to Watertown as part of a public relations campaign about the dangers of declining neighborhoods and gets involved in a cold case murder that may have been the Boston Strangler's first victim.
35) Predator
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
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...
