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22) Red mist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people as far away as California seem unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections...
23) Dust
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"The new Kay Scarpetta novel . . . . After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too...
24) Point of origin
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
25) Déjà dead
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
26) Death du jour
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
28) The silent wife
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 10
Language
English
Description
Investigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a state penitentiary, GBI investigator Will Trent is confronted with disturbing information. One of the inmates claims that he is innocent of a brutal attack for which he has always been the prime suspect. The man insists that he was framed by a corrupt law enforcement team led by Jeffrey Tolliver and that the real culprit is still out there--a serial killer who has systematically been preying...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, an NYC death investigator, the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how, in dealing with death every day, she learned surprising lessons about life -- and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Absolute zero: Framed for murder, Special Forces veteran Cody Thurston will stop at nothing to get revenge.
The housewife: Former chief of detectives Maggie Denning is adjusting to a quiet new life in the suburbs, staying home with baby twins. One morning she sees a limo dropping off a glamorous woman at a nearby home. When she discovers that the same woman has been murdered, she starts asking questions around the neighborhood.
The Moores are missing:...
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 8
Language
English
Description
It's the most dangerous case of Will Trent's career. He knows this from the moment he sets foot in the abandoned Atlanta warehouse where a body lies on the floor--the body of an ex-cop. Bloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim, evidently a woman, was carried away ... and has vanished into thin air. And, worst of all, the warehouse belongs to the city's biggest and most high-profile athlete--a local hero protected by...
32) Cause of death
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kay Scarpetta investigates the death of investigative reporter and scuba diver Ted Eddings, whose body was found in the Elizabeth River where he was supposedly investigating Civil War relics. A second murder complicates the situation before the first is solved.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
An old nemesis has returned to Scarpetta's life: Temple Gault. A serial murderer of monstrous inventiveness, he is now choosing victims that are closer and closer to her -- even leaving notes for her on the corpses. But as Scarpetta lays a trap for Temple, she discovers something about his crimes that is even more horrifying than his shocking cruelty.
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Taking readers inside the nation's preeminent Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the author, who spent ten years with the Maryland OCME, explores the year-by-year story of a pioneer in the field of forensic medicine that is now chronically in crisis.
"Equipped with a journalist's eye, a paramedic's experience and a sardonic wit, Bruce Goldfarb spent ten years with Maryland's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where every sudden or unattended...
36) Port mortuary
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
When Scarpetta examines a young man' body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked insider the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover...
38) Black notice
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim news that Maura's charred body has been found in a mountain ravine. Shocked and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, Wyoming, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow.
40) Secret remains
Author
Series
Coroner's daughter volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A cold case murder, a grisly discovery, and a viper's nest of resentment, betrayal, and dirty secrets converge in this mystery. It's been 12 years since Sandi Parkman went missing after being dropped off at home by her schoolmate, Nick Larson, now the Sheriff of Freeport, Michigan. When a construction crew unearths Sandi's bones--along with Nick's letterman jacket and one of his hairs--Nick becomes suspect number one in the murder. Dr. Emily Hartford,...
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