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1) Faithless
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Grant County series volume 5
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English
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“Brilliant plotting, relentless suspense,” raved the Washington Post. “A new synonym for terror,” crowned the Detroit Free Press. The critics agree: no one writes suspense like Karin Slaughter, whose thrillers featuring medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, have propelled her to the top of bestseller lists the world over. Now Slaughter fuses her unmatched grasp of forensic science...
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Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series volume 9
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Rizzoli & Isles now a series on TNT
In the murky shadows of Boston’s Chinatown lies a severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed in black, her head nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver hair—not human—cling to her body. They are homicide cop Jane Rizzoli’s only clues,...
Rizzoli & Isles now a series on TNT
In the murky shadows of Boston’s Chinatown lies a severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed in black, her head nearly decapitated. Two strands of silver hair—not human—cling to her body. They are homicide cop Jane Rizzoli’s only clues,...
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Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series volume 7
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English
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Invited to witness the X-ray scanning of a mummy, medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the mummy is actually a recent murder victim, and joins forces with Boston PD detective Jane Rizzoli in an investigation that uncovers other similar crimes.
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Discover where it all began in book one of J.T. Ellison's heart-racing Sam Owens series...
As a medical examiner, Samantha Owens knows her job is to make sense of death. But since the day the Tennessee floods took her husband and children, she has been pulled into a suffocating grief no amount of workaholic ardor can penetrate-until she receives a peculiar call from Washington, D.C.
On the other end of the line is an old boyfriend's mother,...
6) Grave goods
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England, 1176. Beautiful, tranquil Glastonbury Abbey–according to legend the last resting place of King Arthur –has been burned almost to the ground. The arsonist remains at large, but the fire has uncovered two hidden skeletons, a man and a woman. The skeletons’ height and great age send rumors flying–could they be the bodies of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere?
King Henry II hopes so. Struggling to put down a rebellion...
King Henry II hopes so. Struggling to put down a rebellion...
7) Trace
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 13
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
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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...
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Rosamund Clifford, the mistress of King Henry II, has died an agonizing death by poison–and the king’s estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is the prime suspect. If Eleanor is guilty, the result could be civil war. The king must once again summon Adelia Aguilar, mistress of the art of death, to uncover the truth.
Adelia is not happy to be called out of retirement. She has been living contentedly in the countryside, caring...
Adelia is not happy to be called out of retirement. She has been living contentedly in the countryside, caring...
11) Predator
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 14
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
12) Blow fly
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 12
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia for a break in Florida but quickly finds herself drawn into a series of horrible, baffling murders. Before the mystery is solved, she will become entangled in an international conspiracy.
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After he finds himself demoted from forensic pathologist to medical examiner in a Florida resort town, Edward Jenner must investigate the murder of his friend, the appearance of four bodies hanging in the Everglades, and the criminal conspiracy overshadowing it all.
14) Port mortuary
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
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English
15) Chaos
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 24
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English
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In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning - except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center's director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God.
16) The body farm
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
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Thorndike Press
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English
17) Depraved heart
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 23
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English
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Receiving a surveillance video of her niece taken twenty years earlier that reveals disturbing secrets, Dr. Kay Scarpetta becomes increasingly isolated as she realizes the dangerous legal implications of her niece's private life.
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Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high school seniors in the small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. When they disappear from a beach party one warm summer night, police launch a massive search. No clues are found, and hope is almost lost until Megan miraculously surfaces after escaping from a bunker deep in the woods.
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 17
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Kay Scarpetta offers her services pro bono to the New York City medical examiner's office, in addition to her duties as CNN's senior forensic analyst, which seems to trigger a series of unsettling events, including an apparent death threat.
20) Luster
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Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties when she meets Eric and his autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage - with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren't hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and falling into Eric's family life and home. She becomes hesitant friend to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter.
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