Patricia Cornwell
1) Trace
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 13
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Now freelancing from south Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to her old haunts in Richmond, Virginia, only to encounter a host of baffling and unwelcome surprises as she investigates the death of a fourteen-year-old girl.
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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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, in a new edition of the classic thriller, complete with a new introduction by the author.
3) At risk
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor wants to use some radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder. The result? A new round of violence.
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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The "book of the dead" is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace-not only personally and professionally, but geographically. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which...
5) Dust
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 21
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts, when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field and physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely weird homicides in Washington, D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI husband has been deployed to help capture a serial killer dubbed the Capital...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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While chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the remains of a dismembered woman in a Virginia landfill, she receives an e-mail message from the killer inviting her to download photos of the victim. By the author of Hornet's Nest.
7) Black notice
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1999]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta of Richmond, Virginia, investigates a body found in a ship's container from Europe. A tattoo on the body sends her flying to Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France, where she learns of a killer known as The Werewolf.
8) The front
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Pub. Date
[2008]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Dispatched by the district attorney to a declining Massachusetts neighborhood to address a case related to a new public relations campaign, state investigator Win Garano suspects a deeper agenda and becomes involved with a loosely organized association of vigilante police officers, in a case during which he is assisted by his intuitive grandmother.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2010]
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IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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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...
10) Red mist
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 19
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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
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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.
11) Blow fly
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Leaving Virginia in search of peace and quiet, Dr. Kay Scarpetta journeys to Florida, where a series of baffling murders entangles her in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the most unexpected circumstance of her life.
12) Cause of death
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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In Norfolk, Virginia, a reporter is killed while scuba diving in the naval yard. As she investigates, chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta uncovers a plot by a fascist militia to take over an atomic power plant.
13) Postmortem
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta uses forensic medicine to try to catch the killer of five young women.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Young lovers are disappearing in Richmond, Virginia, only to be found later as mutilated corpses. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Dr. Kay Scarpetta must track down a murderer before another missing couple become the next victims.
15) Scarpetta
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 16
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind her Charleston forensic pathology practice to accept an assignment in New York City, Kay Scarpetta learns the story of an injured psychiatric patient who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time.