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1) Tailspin
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"Rye Mallett, a fearless "freight dog" pilot charged with flying cargo to far-flung locations, is often rough-spoken and all business, but soft on regulations when they get in the way of meeting a deadline. But he does have a rock-solid reputation: he will fly in the foulest weather, day or night, and deliver the goods safely to their destination. So when Rye is asked to fly into a completely fogbound northern Georgia town and deliver a mysterious...
2) Blindsighted
Author
Series
Grant County series volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A sleepy Georgia town panics when town coroner Sara Linton discovers a young professor raped, mutilated, and murdered, and a second victim turns up days later. A secret from Sara's past could hold the key to finding the killer -- unless he finds her first.
3) Chaos
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 24
Language
English
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. 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,...
4) The bone bed
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
463 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Language
English
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In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches as her father is abducted by Russian soldiers. Their neighbor Akhmed takes Havaa to the bombed-out hospital of Sonja Rabina. Sonja has no desire to take on more responsibility and risk -- there's someone of her own whose return she doesn't want to jeopardize. But over the course of five extraordinary days, Sonja's world will shift on its axis.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Remembering childhood stories her grandfather once told her, young physician Natalia becomes convinced that he spent his last days searching for "the deathless man," a vagabond who claimed to be immortal. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger's wife.
7) The sinner
Author
Series
Language
English
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Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles look into the murders of two cloistered nuns, but it is only when the body of another woman is found horribly mutilated that the investigators begin to grasp the scope of the crimes.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2007
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (ca. 13 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Vermont, a prosecutor forges documents to save an alternative-medicine healer from a malpractice suit. Leland Fowler had his throat infection cured by homeopath Carissa Lake and they fell in love. Now a patient has died on her and she has problems, and soon so will he. By the author of Midwives.
10) A country doctor
Author
Publisher
Books in Motion
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and ambitious woman is eager to establish her career as a doctor but is forced to choose between her occupation and married life. This timely tale presents an internal conflict facing women in the nineteenth century and beyond. Nan is a bright young woman who grows up under the tutelage of the widowed physician, Dr. Leslie. She became interested in medicine at an early age and decides to pursue it as an adult. Unfortunately, her desire...
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
In Grace Valley, California, Dr. June Hudson has managed to keep secret the passionate visits from her lover, undercover DEA agent Jim Post. When June's old high school flame returns to town, June is unsure of her feelings. But when a local woman shoots her husband and human bones turn up in June's aunt's backyard, June is almost happy for the distraction.
12) Body double
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Description
Returning home from a trip to Paris, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles confronts a nightmarish scene. Police cruisers line her street and slumped in a car at the end of Maura's driveway is a dead woman, her head bloodied by a gunshot wound. Cops and neighbors gape at her as she approaches. Only when Maura looks at the victim does she understand why everyone is so shocked by her arrival. The dead woman looks exactly like Maura. Within a week, the...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Dr. Gabriella Mondini, a strong-willed, young Venetian woman, has followed her father in the path of medicine. She possesses a singleminded passion for the art of physick, even though, in 1590, the male-dominated establishment is reluctant to accept a woman doctor. So when her father disappears on a mysterious journey, Gabriella's own status in the Venetian medical society is threatened. Her father has left clues — beautiful, thoughtful, sometimes...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie will go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie feels stifled by her mother's choices and is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be...
15) Blood memory
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
496 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forensic expert Catherine "Cat" Ferry is a thirty-one year old woman at the peak of her professional career when she begins to have panic attacks and blackouts at murder scenes. Suspended from her current case, a string of puzzling murders in New Orleans, she returns to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to regroup. When two bloody footprints are revealed by a spill of her forensic materials on the floor of her childhood bedroom, the sight shocks...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Natalia, a young doctor in a Balkan country ravaged by civil war, struggles to understand why her grandfather left their family to die alone in a field hospital far from home. Was he in search of an odd character from his past who called himself 'the deathless man,' who never appeared to age? She was determined to find the man and solve the mystery of her grandfather's final days.
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Language
English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes from a rural road in Vietnam and his girlfriend, an ER doctor trained in deductive reasoning, follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they first met. Alexis and Austen met on a Saturday night. Not in a bar, but instead in the emergency room where Alexis sutured a bullet wound in Austen's arm....
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
1945: When the critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenal is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel's portrait miniature who looks so much like Kate? And why is she wearing the ruby pendant handed down to Kate by her mother? In...
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Language
English
Description
New York, 1879: After an epic snow storm ravages the city of Albany, Dr. Mary Sutter, a former civil war surgeon, begins a search for two little girls, the daughters of close friends killed by the storm who have vanished without a trace. When what happened to them is revealed, the uproar that ensues tears apart families, reputations, and even the social fabric of the city, exposing dark secrets about some of the most powerful of its citizens, and...
20) The ideal man
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Dr. Ellie Sullivan is the primary witness in the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. The Landrys have been captured, and she'll be called to testify. But they've been captured before, and each time the witnesses are scared into silence-- or disappear before they can take the stand.
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