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1) Autopsy
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 25
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia as the chief medical examiner, the state where she launched her storied career. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, shes inherited not only an overbearing secretary, but also a legacy of neglect and potential corruption. She and her husband Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, have relocated...
Author
Series
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." -- Provided by...
5) Postmortem
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Newly appointed Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Kay Scarpetta faces the challenge of her career as she threads her way through a maze of political machinations, professional jealousy, and mysterious forensic evidence to find a serial killer terrorizing Richmond.
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Patricia Cornwell submerges Dr. Kay Scarpetta in a labyrinthine case that wraps a web of danger around those closest to her and threatens to wreak fear and death far beyond the confines of Virginia. New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War takes Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. A scuba diver, Ted Eddings, is dead, an investigative reporter who was a favorite at the Medical...
12) The body farm
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta recognizes similarities to the gruesome work of a serial killer who has long eluded the F.B.I. when she investigates the disappearance and murder of a young girl whose body is found wrapped in orange duct tape.
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
℗2006.
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (6 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Body of Evidence: "After months of menacing phone calls and feeling that her every move is being watched, successful writer Beryl Madison flees Key West when a terrifying message is scratched on her car. But the very night she returns to Richmond, she deactivates her burglar alarm and opens her door to someone who nearly decapitates her. Why did she let him in, wonders Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta? And why is Beryl's latest manuscript...