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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 24
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English
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CHAOS
From the Ancient Greek (χάος or kháos)
A vast chasm or void. Anarchy. The science of unpredictability.
On a late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner, Pete Marino, respond to a call about a dead bicyclist near the Kennedy School of Government. It appears that a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force.
Even before Scarpetta's headquarters has been officially...
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Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 1
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English
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"Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics--until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With police detective Amelia Sachs by his side, Rhyme must follow a labyrinth of clues that reaches back to a dark chapter in New York City's past--and reach further into the darkness of the mind of a madman...
3) Scarpetta
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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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.
4) Predator
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta, working for the National Forensic Academy, joins her colleagues in a bizarre case that leads them on a trail of horrific crimes from Florida to Boston.
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta is starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina. But in this thrilling #1 New York Times bestseller, her fresh start ushers in a string of murders more baffling—and terrifying—than any that have come before...
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 acquire...
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 acquire...
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English
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Patricia Cornwell delivers the newest engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. 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...
7) Blindsight
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English
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Dr. Laurie Montgomery, a forensic pathologist, investigates a series of fatal "overdoses" and uncovers an underground black market transplant business.
Today, organ transplants are common miracles of science. But if the supply cannot meet the demand, how far will people go to find donors? A LG dual selection.
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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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.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
424 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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A famed criminologist, paralyzed from the neck down, Rhyme compensates for his physical disability with his brains -- and the arms and legs of his brilliant and beautiful protégé, Amelia Sachs. The awe-inspiring duo returns in The Stone Monkey. Recruited to help the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service perform the nearly impossible, Lincoln and Amelia track down a cargo ship headed for New York city carrying two dozen illegal chinese...
11) Body of evidence
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Triple threat series (Irene Hannon) volume 3
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English
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"Forensic pathologist Grace Reilly has seen her share of unusual deaths in rural Missouri. But when she begins to notice a curious pattern in autopsies of older residents whose demises appear to be natural, she takes her concerns to Sheriff Nate Cox. Nate is skeptical about the link Grace is seeing between the deaths, as well as her suspicions of foul play. But her persistence is compelling. And once they join forces to investigate, danger follows...
12) The bone bed
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
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English
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"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...
13) Chromosome 6
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English
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Behind the headlines on cloning—Dr. Robin Cook blends fact with fiction in one of his most terrifying bestsellers...
Chromosome 6 is a prophetic thriller that challenges the medical ethics of genetic manipulation and cloning in the jungles of equatorial Africa, where one mistake could bridge the gap between man and ape—and forever change the genetic map of our existence...
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Distributed by Cedar Fort
Pub. Date
c2007
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viii, 270 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Two years ago, her husband died. And Betsy’s life changed forever. John’s death drew her into a world she didn’t know existed—a world of secret organizations where good and evil are constantly at war over the freedom of the American people. A world that constantly challenges her integrity, her loyalty to her country, and her willingness to sacrifice for what she knows is right. Now, she has been called upon to help expose a group of...
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English
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Forensic pathologist Dr. Samantha Owens autopsies the body of suicide victim Timothy Savage and discovers that he was murdered, but also finds DNA from a kidnapped child whose remains were recovered years earlier, forcing her to solve a twenty-year-old mystery.
17) The firemaker
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English
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The first of Peter May's electrifying China Thrillers, featuring Beijing detective Li Yan and American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell—and the explosive chemistry between them.
"Stunningly original." —Scotland on Sunday
"Highly recommended." —Larry Gandle, Deadly Pleasures
"A fascinating look at the new China." —Kirkus Reviews
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English
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"AN ELECTRIFYING MIXTURE OF MYSTERY, ROMANCE, AND HISTORY." —Kirkus Reviews
"MAY'S WELL-PLOTTED FOLLOW UP... AMPLIFIES HIS VIVID PICTURE OF A CHAOTIC, VITAL MODERN-DAY CHINA" —Publishers Weekly
Li Yan and Margaret Campbell are reluctantly reunited, this time to track down a killer reenacting a series of gruesome rituals.
The Chinese police have once more been
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Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series volume 4
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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...
20) The sinner
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Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series volume 3
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English
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This ebook edition contains a special preview of Tess Gerritsen’s I Know a Secret.
Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns–one dead, one critically injured–victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, but medical...
Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns–one dead, one critically injured–victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, but medical...
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