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Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper. The shots seem impossible, yet they are so perfect they cause instant death. The victims appear to have had nothing in common, and there is no pattern to indicate where the killer will strike next. First New Jersey, then Massachusetts, and then the murky depths off the coast of South Florida, where Scarpetta...
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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{u2019}s clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film...
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Nora Gavin and Cormac Maguire series volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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Nora Gavin and Cormac Maguire series volume 3
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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China novels volume 1
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
6) Red flags
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Series
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
D.C. crime scene analyst Dr. Ellie Barr and pathologist Dr. Rachael Davies, former adversaries-turned-allies, must work together to find a missing baby, the child of a Washington power couple, in a kidnapping linked to a lobbying effort to loosen regulations on a billion-dollar gaming empire.
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Nora Gavin and Cormac Maguire series volume 4
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"What sort of book is worth a man's life? After a year away from working in the field, archaeologist Cormac Maguire and pathologist Nora Gavin are back in the bogs, investigating a ninth-century body found buried in the trunk of a car. They discover that the ancient corpse is not alone-pinned beneath it is the body of Benedict Kavanagh, missing for mere months and familiar to television viewers as a philosopher who enjoyed destroying his opponents...
8) Livid
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 26
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English
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Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fiancé, who has since been held in jail while awaiting trial. Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case, an investigation previously botched by another forensic pathologist. After a grueling cross-examination...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Medical examiner Kat Novak fears that a serial killer is stalking the streets, using a deadly drug to do his dirty work. The police are skeptical. The mayor won't listen. Kat's chief suspect is a prominent citizen. As the death toll rises, Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is close enough to touch her"--
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