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Another harrowing case for Chief Medical Examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta. Following the post moretm of a stowaway which reveals neither cause of death nor identity, Dr Kay Scarpetta travels to Paris in search of information. In Paris she is given a secret mission, a mission which could ruin her career.

Kay Scarpetta: Book 6

From Potter's Field

by Patricia Cornwell

In From Potter's Field , #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell enters the chilling world of Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta--and a bold, brilliant killer from her past. Upon examining a dead woman found in snowbound Central Park, Scarpetta immediately recognizes the grisly work of Temple Brooks Gault. She soon realizes that Gault's murders are but a violent chain... (more)

Kay Scarpetta: Book 9

Point of Origin

by Patricia Cornwell

A farmhouse destroyed by fire. A body amongst the ruins. Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting 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 a violent and grisly murder. The fire has come at the same time as another, even more incendiary horror:... (more)

Kay Scarpetta: Book 1

Postmortem

by Patricia Cornwell

Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer whose signature offers precious few clues. With an unerring eye, she calls on the latest advances in forensic research to unmask the madman. But this investigation will test Kay... (more)

Kay Scarpetta: Book 13

Trace

by Patricia Cornwell

Now freelancing from south Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Investigating the death of a young girl, she must follow the twisting leads and track the strange details in order to make the dead speak-and to reveal the sad truth that may be more than even she can bear.

Kay Scarpetta: Book 8

Unnatural Exposure

by Patricia Cornwell

Virginia Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland, plus four similar victims in a landfill back home. Is a serial butcher loose in Virginia? That's what the panicked public thinks, thanks to a local TV reporter who got the leaked news from her boyfriend, Scarpetta's vile rival, Investigator Percy Ring. But the butchered bodies are so many ... (more)

Beacon at Alexandria (The Hera Series)

by Gillian Bradshaw

Mistress of the Art of Death: Book 1

Mistress of the Art of Death

by Ariana Franklin

A chilling, mesmerizing novel that combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of historical fiction. In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jews sacrifice Christian children in blasphemous ceremonies. To save them from the rioting mob, the king places the Cambridge... (more)

The Trudeau Vector

by Juris Jurjevics

As provocative as Michael Crichton’s State of Fear , Juris Jurjevics’s enthralling debut delivers a combustive blend of politics, military might, and environmental catastrophe. In The Trudeau Vector , three scientists die inexplicably, and their colleagues at a lavish research station in the high Arctic are terrified. Epidemiologist Dr. Jessica Hanley is summoned from Los Angeles to investigate the grisly... (more)

River of Darkness

by Rennie Airth

Upon its original publication, River of Darkness awed readers who look for intelligent, well-plotted psychological mysteries. This "fine, frightening piece of work" ( Kirkus Reviews ) introduces inspector John Madden who, in the years following World War I, is sent to a small village to investigate a particularly gruesome attack. The local police dismiss the slaughter as a botched robbery, but Madden... (more)

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram

by Thu?y Tra?m ?a??ng

At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked. Written between 1968 and 1970, her diary speaks poignantly of her devotion to family and friends, the horrors of war, her yearning for her high school sweetheart, and... (more)

Patient by Patient: Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing from a Doctor's Practice

Patient by Patient: Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing from a Doctor's Practice

by Emily R. Transue

Patient by Patient is the memoir of a young doctor, fresh from residency, as she explores the joys and frustrations of beginning her medical practice. As she strives to help her patients face a range of challenges from the humorous to the profoundly devastating she learns that while medical school gave her an M.D., treating patients has made her a doctor. At the same time she is working with her patients she... (more)

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed

by Patricia Cornwell

Using the firsthand expertise she has gained through writing the bestselling Dr Kay Scarpetta novels, Patricia Cornwell utilizes the demanding methods of modern forensic investigation to re-examine the evidence in the Jack the Ripper murders. These include state-of-the-art DNA testing on various materials, computer enhancement of watermarks and expert examinations of hand-writing, paper, inks and other relics. She... (more)

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Black Notice

by Patricia Cornwell

From Potter's Field

by Patricia Cornwell

Point of Origin

by Patricia Cornwell

Postmortem

by Patricia Cornwell

Trace

by Patricia Cornwell

Unnatural Exposure

by Patricia Cornwell

Beacon at Alexandria (The Hera Series)

by Gillian Bradshaw

Mistress of the Art of Death

by Ariana Franklin

The Trudeau Vector

by Juris Jurjevics

River of Darkness

by Rennie Airth

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram

by Thu?y Tra?m ?a??ng

Patient by Patient: Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing from a Doctor's Practice

by Emily R. Transue

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed

by Patricia Cornwell