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Body farm mysteries volume 2
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton founded Tennessee's world-famous Body Farm-a small piece of land where corpses are left to decay in order to gain important forensic information. Now, in the wake of a shocking crime in nearby Chattanooga, he's called upon by Jess Carter-the rising star of the state's medical examiners-to help her unravel a murderous puzzle. But after re-creating the death scene at the Body Farm, Brockton discovers his career, reputation,...
2) Panacea
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Series
Ice sequence volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Investigating two burned bodies connected by a mysterious tattoo and a string of baffling miracle cures, medical examiner Laura Hanning follows leads to a cult that claims to possess a fabled healing substance and a violent brotherhood that believes that God intends for humanity to suffer.
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Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil--human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, medical student Norris Marshall has joined the ranks of local "resurrectionists"--Those who plunder graveyards and harvest...
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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.
5) Autopsy
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English
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"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"--Provided by publisher
6) The sinner
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Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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After two women are killed, medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli uncover an ancient horror in a cloistered convent that leads them toward a dawning revelation about the killer's identity -- one that's too shattering to consider.
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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. Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a...
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Will Trent series volume 8
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English
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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...
9) Scarpetta
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Leaving behind her Charleston forensic pathology practice to accept an assignment in New York City, Kay Scarpetta learns the story of an injured psychiatric patient who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time.
10) Point of origin
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English
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Virginia's chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta matches wits with a wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes. The case begins with a fire in which many horses die and the embers yield a human body.
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for Virginia, investigates the sex murder of a girl by an escaped convict. The probe requires exhuming the body for a second autopsy. Lots of information on bodies and autopsies. By the author of Cruel and Unusual.
13) Marker
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Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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New York City medical examiners Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton confront a ballooning series of puzzling hospital deaths of young, healthy people after successful routine surgery. It seems impossible to determine why and how these patients are dying, yet Laurie comes to suspect that not only are the deaths related--they're intentional, suggesting the work of a remarkably clever healthcare serial killer.
15) Cold day in July
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Series
Bayou books (Stella Cameron) volume 2
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When the murder of a singer in Toussaint, Louisiana, reopens a supposedly solved murder case, medical examiner Reb O'Brien is forced to team up with Marc Girard, and as passion rages between them, the secrets of the town are revealed.
16) Cure
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English
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"...New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, where she's been employed for more than two decades. Worried about whether she still has what it takes after so much time away, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start-up biotech companies caught in a zero sum game...." --inside front cover.
17) Body of evidence
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Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of Beryl Madison, an author, whose latest manuscript is now missing.
18) Critical
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Angela Dawson, M.D., climb to the top was rough, but she returns to school to earn an MBA and starts a company, Angels Healthcare. With her controlling interest in three busy specialty hospitals in New York City and plans for others, Angela's future looks very bright.Then a surge of drug-resistant staph infections in all three hospitals devastates Angela's carefully constructed world.
19) Cause of death
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Medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, anticipating a quiet New Year's Eve, is called to investigate the death of a reporter found in the waters of a Navy shipyard who was following an explosive story that leads Scarpetta and the FBI into the hands of a cult fanatic.
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In New York, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner, matches wits with a sadistic killer who operates in the subway tunnels. After killing a transit policeman he infiltrates the FBI's computers and sends her taunting messages while continuing to kill. The Central Park (New York) murder of a young, homeless woman on Christmas sends medical examiner Scarpetta, her friend Captain Marino, & her niece on a chase that ends in the subway. The sixth suspense...
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