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Patricia
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Born
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HAVE
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Postmortem
1990 |
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A
serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three
women have died, brutalized and strangled in their own
bedrooms. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike
at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So
when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner, is awakened
at 2.33 am, she knows the news is bad: there is a fourth
victim, and she fears now for those that will follow unless
she can dig up new forensic evidence to aid the police.
But not everyone is pleased to see a woman in this powerful
job. Someone may even want to ruin her career and reputation... |
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Body
Of Evidence 1991
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Someone
is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and
makes threatening, obscene phone calls. Terrified, Beryl
flees to Key West - but eventually she must return to
her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably
invites her killer in. Thus begins for Dr Key Scarpetta
the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as
it is bizarre. Why would Beryl open the door to someone
who brutally slashed and then neatly decapitated her?
Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's
enigmatic relationship with a prizewinning author and
the disappearance of her own manuscript. As Scarpetta
retraces Beryl's footsteps, an investigation that begins
in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads her
deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own. |
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All
That Remains 1992
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A
killer is stalking young loners. Taking their lives ...
and leaning just one tantalizing clue
When the
bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote
woodland areas, Dr Kay Scarpetta's task as chief medical
examiner is made more difficult by the effects of the
elements. Eight times she must write that the cause of
death is undetermined. But when the latest girl to go
missing turns out to be the daughter of one of the most
powerful women in America, Kay finds herself homey to
political pressure and press harassment. As she starts
to investigate, she finds that vital evidence is being
withheld from her - or even faked. And all the time a
cunning sadistic killer is still at large..
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Cruel
And Unusual 1993
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At
11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted
murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the
electric chair. At the morgue Dr Kay Scarpetta waits for
Waddells body. preparing to perform post mortem
before the subject is dead is s strange feeling, but Scarpetta
has been here before. And Waddells death is not
the only newsworthy event on this freezing night: the
grotesquely wounded body of a young boy is found propped
against a rubbish skip. To Scarpetta the two cases seem
unrelated, until she recalls that the body of Waddells
victim had been arranged in a strikingly similar position.
Then a third murder is discovered, the most puzzling of
all. The crime scene yields very few clues: old blood
stains, fragments of feather, and - most baffling - a
bloody fingerprint that points to the one suspect who
could not possibly have committed the murder.
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The
Body Farm 1994
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Black
Mountain, North Carolina - a sleepy little town where
the local police deal with one homicide a year, if theyre
unlucky, and where people are still getting used to the
idea of locking their doors at night. Hardly the place
for a serial killer to be stalking, but that seems the
most likely scenario when the corpse of eleven-year-old
Emily Steiner is found, with a bullet wound to the head
and several small sections of skin removed from her frail
and abused body. The execution of the crime bears disturbing
similarities to the recent murder of young Eddie Heath
in Virginia, and Dr Kay Scarpetta, the Chief Medical Examiner
on that case, is called in to bring her forensic skills
to bear on this latest atrocity. Fighting the natural
assumption that Emilys murderer is also the man
who killed Eddie, Scarpettas instinct for the unusual
is rudely awakened when another body is found - a local
cop who was working on the Steiner case but becomes a
suspect himself when the missing pieces of Emilys
skin are found in hid freezer. But its all a little
too neat for Scarpetta. The angles have to be covered,
and just because the prime suspect is dead doesnt
mean the case is closed
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From
Potters Field 1995
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Christmas
has never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta.
Although a holiday for most, the festivities always seem
to heighten the alienation felt by society's violent fringe;
and that usually means more work for Scarpetta, Virginia's
Chief Medical Examiner and consulting forensic pathologist
for the FBI. The body was naked female, and found propped
against a fountain in a bleak area of New York's Central
Park. Her apparent manner of death points to a modus operendi
that is chillingly familiar: the gunshot wound to the
head the sections of skin excised from the body, the displayed
corpse - all suggest that Temple Brooks Gault, Scarpetta's
nemesis, is back at work. But this time Gault isn't satisfied
with indiscriminate murder. As Scarpetta scrapes together
the meager clues he leaves behind she realizes his actions
are becoming more focused taunting almost; letting her
know he's still out there, still killing. The sabotage
of the FBl's database computer - a computer programmed
and run by Scarpetta's niece Lucy - no longer seems coincidental,
and with other insidious encroachments into her private
life Scarpetta faces a terrifying truth: that this time,
the price of failure could be personal. Calling on all
her reserves of courage and skill, and the able assistance
of colleagues Marine and Wesley, Scarpetta must track
this most dangerous of killers in pursuit of survival
as well as justice heading inexorably to an electrifying
climax amid the dark, menacing labyrinths of the New York
subway. |
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Cause
Of Death 1996 |
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New
Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest
year takes Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River's
icy surface. A diver, Ted Eddings, is dead an investigative
reporter who was a favorite at the Medical Examiner's
office. Was Eddings probing the frigid depths of the Inactive
Shipyard for a story, or simply diving for sunken trinkets?
And why did Scarpetta receive a phone call from someone
reporting the death before the police were notified? The
case envelops Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, and police captain
Pete Marine in a world where both cutting-edge technology
and old-fashioned detective work are critical offensive
weapons. Together they follow the trail of death to a
well of violence as dark and forbidding as the water that
swirled over Ted Eddings. |
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Hornets
Nest 1996
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Violence
is swarming in Charlotte, and Deputy Chief Virginia West
has a mood to match. Another out-of-town businessman has
been found murdered, a wise-ass detective has taken her
parking slot, and her boss is telling her to go out on
patrol as escort to a young reporter |
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Unnatural
Exposure 1997
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Dublin,
Ireland and Richmond Virginia: separated by thousands
of miles - linked by murder. For Dr Kay Scarpetta a lecture
stint in Ireland provides the perfect opportunity to find
out if the murders on both sides of the Atlantic are indeed
connected. Five dismembered beheaded bodies were found
in Ireland years ago - now four have been discovered in
the States. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different.
There are vital discrepancies, and an indication that
the elderly victim was already seriously ill. A copycat
killing. Goulish, perhaps, but not unusual. And then abject
terror grips Scarpetta and her colleagues when the next
body is found. The circumstances of death broadcast a
clear and horrifying message: the killer is armed with
the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox. |
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Point
Of Origin 1998
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Dr
Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting forensic
pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF,
is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been
destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds
a body which tells a story of violent and grisly murder.
The fire has come at the same time as another, even more
incendiary horror: Carrie Grethen, a killer who nearly
destroyed the lives of Scarpetta and those closest to
her, has escaped from a forensic psychiatric hospital.
Her whereabouts is unknown, but her ultimate destination
is not, for Carrie has begun to communicate |
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Black
Notice 1999 |
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The
nightmare begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond's
Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting
a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains
of a stowaway. The autopsy performed by Chief Medical
Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta initially reveals neither a
cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's
personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a
hunt for information that leads to INTERPOL's headquarters
in Lyon, France, where she receives critical instructions:
go to the Paris morgue to receive forbidden, secret evidence
and then return to Virginia to carry out a mission. It
is a mission that could ruin her career.
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Southern
Cross 1999
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Featuring
the fast-moving adventures of Richmond's police department.
Judy Hammer has been hired with the brief to bring sanity
and order to a city in escalating chaos. Aided by her
Deputy, Virginia West, and Andy Brazil, now a full-time
police officer, she faces the most difficult assignment
of her career. Not only do the established police force
resent their presence, the city's institutions have over-high
expectations of the new team. Their work to eradicate
teenage gangs, prevent the robberies from cash dispensers
and the in-fighting inside the department comes to a shuddering
halt when a virus invades the police computer system.
Their screens are frozen into an image of blue fish. The
same blue fish also appears on the statue of Jefferson
Davis which dominates the city's cemetery. The once-proud
statue has been transformed by graffiti into a black basketball
player with the number 12 on his jersey. A gang called
the Pikes claim it is their symbol - the same gang who
are probably involved the robberies taking place all over
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The
Last Precinct 2000
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When
Kay Scarpetta is mandated to investigate the four hundred-year-old
violent death of one of America's first settlers at Jamestown,
Virginia, it seems like the perfect match: modern technology's
savviest avatar versus an age-old crime. Kay's involvement
in the case attracts headlines, and more - the unwelcome
ire of a person or persons unknown. Kay and those closest
to her soon find themselves the targets of vicious hate
crimes that are clearly inspired by her connection to
the archaeological excavation. At first more nuisance
than assault, the nature of the attacks quickly escalates
to violence. Worse still, those sworn to protect prove
to be the enemy, forcing Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, and
detective Peter Marino to take matters into their own
hands - torquing the rule of law and changing their lives
forever |
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Isle Of Dogs 2001
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Chaos
breaks loose when the governor of Virginia orders that
speed traps be painted on all streets and highways, warning
that speeders will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying
overhead. But the eccentric Isle of Tangier, fourteen
miles off the coast of Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay,
responds by declaring war on its own state. Judy Hammer,
newly installed as the superintendent of the Virginia
State Police, and Andy Brazil, a state trooper and Hammer's
right hand and confidant, find themselves at their wits'
end as they try to protect the public from the politicians-and
vice versa-in this pitch-perfect, darkly comic romp.
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The
Blow Fly 2003
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Dr
Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in quest of peace but
instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders
in Florida, where she becomes entangled in an international
conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life.
'All of Cornwell's books run on high octane fuel, a cocktail
of adrenalin and fear . such is her grip on her audience
and such is her ability to suck you into her hermetic,
claustrophobic world that Scarpetta's tension becomes
the reader's. Her fear is contagious, her adrenaline levels
boost your own.' The Times |
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Trace
2004 |
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Since
Postmortem garnered critical acclaim and a record-breaking
five awards for a first crime novel, the Scarpetta novels
have often been imitated, but never bettered. Blow Fly
saw the world famous medical examiner forced out of Virginia,
the media harassing her at every turn, and the serial
killer, Chandonne, determined to break the woman who put
him behind bars. It also brought Benton Wesley back into
her life, her lover and soulmate whose supposed death
had left her bereft and alone. Now she is revitalised
and determined to regain control of her professional life.
She is called back to Virginia where she had been chief
medical examiner to work on the investigation into the
dark, lonely death of a 14-year- old girl. Scarpetta follows
a trail too feint for the human eye to see but which eventually
leads to a truth that may be more than she can bear. |
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Predator
2005 |
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Kay
Scarpetta and her colleagues-Benton Wesley, Pete Marino,
and her niece Lucy Farinelli-return to a series of forensic
cases as haunting as any they have ever tackled. Working
with the National Forensic Institute in Florida, Scarpetta
and Marino examine the X-rays of a man who has died from
a shotgun blast to the chest. But the pellets embedded
show a strange 'pinball' pattern and the two can't help
but wonder if this points to suicide-or to murder.
In
an abandoned house in the rural South, a woman is held
against her will. Her captor is unknown to her-and indeed
unseen-but even in the dark, she knows that he is near.
And on Cape Cod, Lucy awakens to a gray winter morning
and the sure feeling that she has made a dreadful mistake. |
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At
Risk 2006 |
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Book
Of The Dead 2007 |
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The
"book of the dead" is the morgue log, the ledger
in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta,
however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from
her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta
decides it's time for a change of pace-not only personally
and professionally, but geographically. Moving to the
historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens
a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which
she and her colleagues-including Pete Marino and her niece,
Lucy-offer expert crime-scene investigation and autopsies
to communities that lack local access to competent death
investigation and modern technology.
It
seems like an ideal situation, until the new battles
start-with local politicians, with entrenched interests,
with someone whose covert attempts at sabotage are clearly
meant to run her out of town. And that's even before
the murders and other violent deaths begin.
A
young man from a well-known family jumps off a water
tower. A woman is found ritualistically murdered in
her multi-million-dollar beach home. The body of an
abused young boy is discovered dumped in a desolate
marsh. Meanwhile, in distant New England, problems with
a prominent patient at a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric
hospital begin to hint at interconnections that are
as hard to imagine as they are horrible.
Scarpetta
has dealt with many brutal and unusual crimes before,
but never a string of them as baffling, or as terrifying,
as the ones that face her now. Before she is through,
that book of the dead will contain many names-and the
pen may be poised to write her own.
The
first name in forensics. The last name in suspense.
Once again, Patricia Cornwell proves her exceptional
ability to entertain and enthrall. |
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The
Front 2008 |
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Scarpetta
2009
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Leaving
behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston,
South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in
New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine
an injured man on Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison
ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane,
has specifically asked for her, and when she literally
has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk - and the
story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre
she has ever heard. The
injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a
murder . . . that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally
insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his
paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied
on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The one
thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has
been tortured and murdered - and more violent deaths
will follow. Gradually, an inexplicable and horrifying
truth emerges: Whoever is committing the crimes knows
where his prey is at all times. Is it a person, a government?
And what is the connection between the victims?
In the
days that follow, Scarpetta; her forensic psychologist
husband, Benton Wesley; and her niece, Lucy, who has
recently formed her own forensic computer investigation
firm in New York, will undertake a harrowing chase through
cyberspace and the all-too-real streets of the city
- an odyssey that will take them at once to places they
never knew, and much, much too close to home.
Throughout,
Cornwell delivers shocking twists and turns, and the
kind of cutting-edge technology that only she can provide.
Once again, she proves her exceptional ability to entertain
and enthrall. |
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Scarpetta
Factor 2009 |
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It
is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted
Dr. Kay Scarpetta - despite her busy schedule and her
continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN
- to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office
of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her
increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of
unexpected and unsettling events. She is asked live on
the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who
has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during
the same telecast she receives a startling call-in from
a former psychiatrist patient of Benton Wesley's. When
she returns after the show to the apartment where she
and Benton live, she finds an ominous package - possibly
a bomb - waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent
threat on Scarpetta's life finds her embroiled in a surreal
plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable
sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionaires
with whom Lucy seems to have shared a secret past.
Scarpetta's
CNN producer wants her to launch a TV show called The
Scarpetta Factor. Given the bizarre events already in
play, she fears that her growing fame will generate
the illusion that she has a 'special factor,' a mythical
ability to solve all her cases. She wonders if she will
end up like other TV personalities: her own stereotype.
The Scarpetta
Factor, the seventeenth in the series, finds the familiar
cast of characters together again in New York. Marino
is working for the NYPD; Benton Wesley uses his forensic
psychological expertise at Kirby and Bellevue; and Lucy
continues to dazzle with her expertise in forensic computer
investigations as she works yet another case with NY
prosecutor Jaime Berger. |
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Port
Mortuary
2010 |
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Port
Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell's 18th Scarpetta
novel, is literally a port for the dead. In this fast-paced
story, a treacherous path from Scarpetta's past merges
with the high tech highway she now finds herself on. We
travel back to the beginning of her professional career,
when she enlisted in the Air Force to pay off her medical
school debt and found herself ensnared in a gruesome case
of what seemed to be vicious, racially motivated hate
crimes against two Americans in South Africa. Now, more
than twenty years and many career successes later, her
secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force
Base, where she has been immersed in a training fellowship
to master the art of CT-assisted virtual autopsy--a procedure
the White House has mandated that she introduce in the
private sector. As
the chief of the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts,
a joint venture of the state and federal governments
and MIT, Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could
shut down her new facility and ruin her personally and
professionally. A young man drops dead, apparently from
a cardiac arrhythmia, eerily close to Scarpetta's new
Cambridge home. But when his body is examined the next
morning, there are stunning indications that he may
have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and
locked insider the Center's cooler. 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.
She realizes that she is fighting a cunning and cruel
enemy that is invisible as she races against time to
discover who and why before more people die.
In Port
Mortuary, Patricia Cornwell brings Scarpetta together
with Marino, Benton, and Lucy in an intimate way that
is reminiscent of the early novels, and we welcome a
voice we haven't heard in years. The point of view is
Scarpetta's, and this is her story. |
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Red
Mist 2011 |
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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 that compel
her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding's
death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning
of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain
of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international
scale. And she is the only one who can stop it. |
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The
Bone Bed 2012 |
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In
Alberta, Canada, 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. Then, with shocking speed, events begin
to unfold.
A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals
bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved
cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind
all this? And whom can Scarpetta trust? Her lead investigator,
Pete Marino, and FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, are
both unhappy with her because of personnel changes at
the CFC, and her niece Lucy has become even more secretive
than usual. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own
this time - against an enormously powerful and cunning
enemy who seems impossible to defeat
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Dust
2013 |
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With
unparalleled high-tension suspense and the latest in forensic
technology, Patricia Cornwell once again proves her exceptional
ability to surprise—and to thrill—in this
electrifying Kay Scarpetta novel.
A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has
just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT,
and it’s suspected the identity is that of missing
computer engineering grad student Gail Shipton, last
seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. It
appears she’s been murdered, mere weeks before
the trial in her $100 million lawsuit against her former
financial manager, and Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner
Kay Scarpetta doubts it’s a coincidence. She also
fears the case may have a connection with her computer
genius niece, Lucy.
In Dust, Scarpetta and her colleagues are up
against a force far more sinister than a sexual predator
who fits the criminal classification of a “spectacle
killer.” The murder of Gail Shipton soon leads
deep into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology,
organized crime, and shocking corruption at the highest
levels.
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Flesh
and Blood 2014 |
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In
this Kay Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds
herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who
leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper.
It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday,
and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation
with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she
notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge
house. Is this a kids’ game? If so, why are all
of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly
minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino
tells her there’s been a homicide five minutes
away. A high school music teacher has been shot with
uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his
car. No one has heard or seen a thing.
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 investigates
a shipwreck, looking for answers that only she can discover
and analyze. And it is there that she comes face to
face with shocking evidence that implicates her techno
genius niece, Lucy, Scarpetta’s own flesh and
blood.
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Depraved
Heart 2015 |
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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’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 clip and then others sent
soon after raise dangerous legal implications that increasingly
isolate Scarpetta and leave her confused, worried, and
not knowing where to turn. She doesn’t know whom
she can tell – not her FBI husband Benton Wesley
or her investigative partner Pete Marino. Not even Lucy.
In this new novel, Cornwell launches these
unforgettable characters on an intensely psychological
odyssey that includes the mysterious death of a Hollywood
mogul’s daughter, aircraft wreckage on the bottom
of the sea in the Bermuda Triangle, a grisly gift left
in the back of a crime scene truck, and videos from
the past that threaten to destroy Scarpetta’s
entire world and everyone she loves. The diabolical
presence behind what unfolds seems obvious – but
strangely, not to the FBI. Certainly that’s the
message they send when they raid Lucy’s estate
and begin building a case that could send her to prison
for the rest of her life.
In the latest novel in her bestselling series
featuring chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta,
Cornwell will captivate readers with the shocking twists,
high-wire tension, and cutting-edge forensic detail
that she is famous for, proving yet again why she’s
the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer.
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Chaos
2016 |
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From
the Ancient Greek (???? or kháos)
A vast chasm or void. Anarchy. The science
of unpredictability.
On a late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner, Pete
Marino, respond to a call about a dead bicyclist near
the Kennedy School of Government. It appears that a
young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman
force.
Even before Scarpetta’s headquarters
has been officially notified about the case, Marino
and Scarpetta’s FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley,
receive suspicious calls, allegedly from someone at
Interpol. But it makes no sense. Why would the elite
international police agency know about the case or be
interested? It soon becomes apparent that an onslaught
of harassment might be the work of an anonymous cyberbully
named Tailend Charlie, who has been sending cryptic
communications to Scarpetta for over a week.
Even Lucy, her brilliant tech-savvy niece,
can’t trace who it is or how this person could
have access to intimate information. When a second death
shocks Scarpetta to her core, it becomes apparent she
and those close to her are confronted with something
far bigger and more dangerous than they’d ever
imagined.
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Quantum
2019 |
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International
bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers pulse-pounding
thrills in the first book in a series featuring a brilliant
and unusual new heroine, cutting-edge cybertechnology,
and stakes that are astronomically high.
On the eve of a top secret space mission, Captain
Calli Chase detects a tripped alarm in the tunnels deep
below a NASA research center. A NASA pilot, quantum
physicist, and cybercrime investigator, Calli knows
that a looming blizzard and government shutdown could
provide the perfect cover for sabotage, with deadly
consequences.
As it turns out, the danger is worse than she
thought. A spatter of dried blood, a missing security
badge, a suspicious suicide—a series of disturbing
clues point to Calli’s twin sister, Carme, who’s
been MIA for days.
Desperate to halt the countdown to disaster
and to clear her sister’s name, Captain Chase
digs deep into her vast cyber security knowledge and
her painful past, probing for answers to her twin’s
erratic conduct. As time is running out, she realizes
that failure means catastrophe—not just for the
space program but for the safety of the whole nation.
Brilliantly crafted, gripping, and smart, Patricia
Cornwell’s cliffhanger ending will keep readers
wondering what’s next for Captain Calli Chase.
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Spin
2021 |
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Captain
Calli Chase races against time to thwart a plot that leaves
the fate of humanity hanging in the balance in this new
thriller from international bestselling author Patricia
Cornwell.
In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone
terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face
with her missing twin sister—as well as the startling
truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program
put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and
only Calli can redirect its course.
Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA
investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot
sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between
the sabotaged rocket launch and her predetermined destiny…a
search that someone else seems very interested in stopping.
From NASA to the Chase family farm, to the
White House to distant orbits of space, Calli plays
a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek with a cunning and
ruthless adversary. One wrong move will unleash cataclysmic
consequences reaching far beyond the boundaries of Earth.
This heart-pounding Captain Chase thriller
from Patricia Cornwell will leave readers desperate
for more.
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