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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 25
Language
English
Description
"Scarpetta is back! In this twenty-fifth in the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts an ingenious killer who has mastered cutting-edge science for the most nefarious ends"--
2) The god gene
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Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Language
English
Description
Rick Hayden and Laura Fanning of Panacea come across another impossible medical scenario--the gene that makes us human. Or does it? Rick's brother, Keith, a prominent zoologist at NYU, suddenly liquidates his assets and walks out of his job never to be seen again.The only clues they have are his brother's book, which mentions "the god gene"--a gene found only in primates that spontaneously appears in the evolutionary record and controls brain development--and...
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Series
Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series volume 6
Language
English
Description
Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the hit TNT series—continue their bestselling crime-solving streak. • Evil exists. Evil walks the streets. And evil has spawned a diabolical new disciple in this white-knuckle thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.
PECCAVI
The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman’s brutal murder: I...
PECCAVI
The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman’s brutal murder: I...
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Series
Will Trent series volume 11
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who's been brutally attacked. But as the investigation progresses, led by...
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Series
Gin Sullivan novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
The summer after she graduated from high school, Gin Sullivan's little sister Lily went missing. Her family fell apart, not to mention her relationship with her high school sweetheart, Jake. Now, almost twenty years later, Gin is living in Chicago and working as a medical examiner when she gets the call: a body's been found in the woods outside her small hometown. It could be her sister. After all these years, it's time for Gin to go home and face...
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Series
Black Harbor novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
"On a bone-chilling October night, Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp investigates the death of her daughter's best friend. Hours later, the tragedy hits even closer to home when she makes a devastating discovery--her daughter, Chloe, is gone. But, not without a trace. A morbid mosaic of clues forces Rowan and her husband to question how deeply they really knew their daughter. As they work closely to peel back the layers of this case, they begin to unearth...
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 9
Language
English
Description
Instant New York Times Bestseller!
New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won't see coming
A mysterious kidnapping
On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. The authorities are desperate to save...
9) Cure
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English
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With her son's illness in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work-and finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzle of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start- up biotech companies caught in a zero-sum game...
10) Cause of death
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Chivers Press
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
Description
For San Francisco's newest medical examiner, Dr. Jessie Teska, it was supposed to be a fresh start. Instead she faces a chilling discovery when a suspected overdose case contains hints of something more sinister. Jessie's superiors urge her to close the case, but as more bodies land on her autopsy table, she uncovers a constellation of deaths that point to an elaborate plot involving nefarious opioid traffickers and flashy tech titans who got rich...
12) Book of the dead
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Series
Scarpetta volume 15
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now living in Charleston, S.C., has started a private forensic pathology practice. Her happy foray into her new life and job is short lived when she finds herself in a battle with the local elected coroner whose covert attempts at sabotage interfere with her job and her residency. Adding further frustration is a series of seemingly unrelated violent deaths in nearby resorts and rural communities, and problems with a prominent patient...
Author
Series
Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series volume 7
Language
English
Description
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.
14) 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.
15) Genesis
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Series
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English
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When the body of twenty-nine-year-old social worker Gloria Montoya, seven weeks pregnant with her first, shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery's autopsy table, she's baffled to find no apparent causes of death. Laurie enlists the help of Dr. Tricia Albanese, a forensic pathology resident with a background in genetic science, to help her trace the identity of the unborn baby's father using DNA from the mother and child....
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Series
Will Trent series volume 8
Language
English
Description
Georgia detective Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton look into the murder of an ex-cop whose body was found at an abandoned construction site, an investigation that uncovers links to Will's troubled past.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 11
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Author
Series
Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series volume 8
Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Gerritsen paces Ice Cold with surgical precision.”—Salon
A spur-of-the-moment ski trip becomes a bone-chilling nightmare when a wrong turn leaves Boston medical examiner Maura Isles marooned—far from home and help—in the snowbound Wyoming mountains. Seeking shelter from the cold, she and her traveling companions stumble upon Kingdom...
A spur-of-the-moment ski trip becomes a bone-chilling nightmare when a wrong turn leaves Boston medical examiner Maura Isles marooned—far from home and help—in the snowbound Wyoming mountains. Seeking shelter from the cold, she and her traveling companions stumble upon Kingdom...
19) The bone bed
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
In Alberta, 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. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own this time against an enormously powerful and cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.
20) Unnatural death
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 27
Language
English
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Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta's career. In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell's #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, 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...
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