Point of Origin (Dr Kay Scarpetta)
Author: Patricia Cornwell
A farmhouse destroyed by fireA body amongst the ruinsDr 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 ano….Read More
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Black Notice
See alternate cover edition hereThe postmortem is in--Black Notice, the 10th in Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta series, is a gore-splattered, intensely exciting read. As winter grips Richmond, Virginia, an air of… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, France, Mystery Fiction
Deadly Decisions
A nine-year old girl dies on her way to ballet class, caught in outlaw biker crossfire. Violence is spilling on to the streets of Montreal and Dr Temperance Brennan, forensic… Continue Reading Posted in: Conspiracy Thrillers (Kindle Store), Detective And Mystery Stories, Forensic Anthropology, Mystery Fiction, Police Procedurals (Kindle Store)
Unnatural Exposure (Dr Kay Scarpetta)
See alternate cover edition hereVirginia 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… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, Medical Thrillers (Kindle Store), Mystery Fiction, Serial Killer Thrillers, United States
Post Mortem
On Saturdays, and under the cover of night, in Richmond, a human monster strikes leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects… Continue Reading Posted in: Medical Examiners (Law), Virginia Richmond, Women Physicians
From Potter’s Field
See alternate cover edition hereChristmas, New York and a naked body is discovered in Central Park... Christmas has never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta. Although a… Continue Reading Posted in: Christmas Stories, Medical Fiction (Books), Medical Thrillers (Kindle Store), Mystery Fiction, Serial Murderers
Grave Secrets
In the searing heat of Guatemala, Dr Temperance Brennan must harden herself against the horrors she excavates.And then four young girls go missing from Guatemala City.When a skeleton is found… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, Fiction, Forensic Anthropology
The Last Precinct
Librarian's Note: This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0751525359Physically and psychologically bruised by her encounter with the killer Chandonne, Dr Kay Scarpetta has to leave her home in the… Continue Reading Posted in: Medical Examiners (Law), Mystery Fiction, Serial Murderers
Blowfly
In Blow Fly, Kay Scarpetta stands at the threshold of a new life after her work as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to a jarring end. At the close… Continue Reading Posted in: Florida, Louisiana, Women Physicians
Monday Mourning
Temperance Brennan has come to Montreal from Charlotte in early December to testify as an expert witness at a trial. As Forensic Anthropologist for the province of Quebec, that's part… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, Fiction, Women Forensic Anthropologists
Book Of The Dead
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Fatal Voyage
A plane crashes high in the mountains of North Carolina. But a severed foot is discovered some distance from the crash site.Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is first on the… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, Fiction, Forensic Anthropology
Cruel and Unusual (A Dr Kay Scarpetta Mystery)
The fingerprints say the murderer is the man who's just been executed ...At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, Mystery Fiction, Women Detectives
Body of Evidence
A reclusive writer is dead. And her final manuscript has disappeared...Someone is after Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone calls. Terrified, she flees to… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Mystery Fiction, Virginia Richmond
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