Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, FBI forensic pathologist, investigates the murder of a child, Emily Steiner. Emily was killed coming home from a North Carolina church meeting. It's a puzzling and terrifying crime, reminiscent of the work of serial killer Temple Gault, who has long eluded Dr. Scarpetta.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Chivers Press
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
542 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta's investigation of a killer who uses fire to hide his crimes turns personal when she learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, is somehow involved.
3) Chaos
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
"#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...
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...
6) Livid
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 26
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta testifies in a case, fumbled by the initial pathologist, concerning a drowned beauty queen whose fiancé is charged with her death. Then the judge's sister is murdered.
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...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
496 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside 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...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 27
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta's career. In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell's #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including...
9) Autopsy
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 25
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia as the chief medical examiner, the state where she launched her storied career. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, she's inherited not only an overbearing secretary, but also a legacy of neglect and potential corruption. She and her husband Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, have...
10) Spin
Author
Series
Captain Chase novels volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
567 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
In CLOVER Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by VOKAL can be requested from other CLOVER Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Make a purchase suggestion
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request