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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
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English
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta becomes both investigator and victim when she is contacted over the Internet by a murderer who is threatening to loose a deadly virus on the world.
2) Trace
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 13
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English
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When Dr. Kay Scarpetta, freelancing from South Florida, returns to Richmond, Virginia, at the request of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a crime, she finds that nothing is as she left it: her former lab is being demolished; the chief isn't really the one who requested her; her former assistant chief has personal problems that he refuses to reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent meddles with the...
3) Isle of dogs
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Andy Brazil novels volume 3
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English
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Chaos breaks loose when the governor of Virginia orders speed traps on all streets and highways and warns that speeders will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. The eccentric island of Tangier ... 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, find themselves at their wits' end as they try to protect the public from the politicians...
4) Black notice
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
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English
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A cargo ship arriving at Richmond's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. The autopsy performed by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to INTERPOL's headquarters in Lyon, France....
5) Blow fly
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
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English
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Kay Scarpetta steps over the threshold of a new life after her work as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner comes to a jarring end.
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
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English
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This dazzling thriller pits Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta against greater odds than ever before. Convicted serial killer Carrie Grethen has escaped from psychiatric hospital with plans for revenge. Wary and shaken, Scarpetta also has to investigate the death by fire of an unknown woman. The post-mortem reveals that the woman was stabbed before the fire was started, and soon Scarpetta and her colleagues are called out to the scene of another...
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 6
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English
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#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this classic forensic thriller.
An unidentified nude female sits propped against a fountain in Central Park. There are no signs of struggle. When Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her colleagues Benton Wesley and Pete Marino arrive on the scene, they instantly recognize the signature of serial killer Temple Brooks Gault. Scarpetta, on assignment...
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 2
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English
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Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and sleuth Dr. Kay Scarpetta must employ all the investigative technology at her disposal in a hunt for the brutal murderer of a writer who had been involved in a bizarre relationship.
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Andy Brazil novels volume 1
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English
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In this first title of a new mystery series, Cornwell introduces us to a dynamic trio of crime-solver in Charlotte, North Carolina: Andy Brazil, an eager young reporter; Judy Hammer, the city's police chief; and Virginia West. Hammer's deputy and a genuine head-turner. They're after a serial killer who pulls male out-of-towners from their rental cars, then mutilates, spray paints and shoots them, in that order. What the trio uncovers jolts them like...
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 11
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English
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The eleventh Scarpetta novel, in which the Chief Medical Examiner is under a Grand Jury investigation for murder. She knows she's being framed and she no longer knows who she can trust… Physically and psychologically bruised by her encounter with the killer Chandonne, Dr Kay Scarpetta has to leave her home in the hands of the police team investigating the attack. She finds shelter with an old friend, Anna Zenner, but it is not the haven of security...
11) Red mist
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 19
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English
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Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people as far away as California seem unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections...
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
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English
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A rural North Carolina town is shaken by the brutal murder of eleven-year-old Emily Steiner, a crime reminiscent of the handiwork of a serial killer who has eluded the FBI for years. Called in to investigate, Kay Scarpetta is joined by her ingenious, rebellious, and very annoying niece, Lucy, an FBI intern with a promising future in Quantico's computer engineering facility. To find the answers needed to solve Emily's murder, Kay must conduct a grisly...
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 3
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English
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Pathologist Kay Scarpetta seeks to identify the killer of five young couples, all murdered within a 50-mile radius of Williamsburg.
14) Cause of death
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
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English
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On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia's Elizabeth River, a scuba diver's body is discovered near the Inactive Naval Shipyard. As the police begin searching for clues, the wallet of investigative report Ted eddings is found. Unnerved by the possible identity of the victim,...
15) Predator
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 14
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English
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Kay Scarpetta and her colleague Pete Marino investigate the case of a man killed by a shotgun blast to the chest, while a woman is trapped in an abandoned house in the South after being kidnapped by an unknown captor
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