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"Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, an NYC death investigator, the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how, in dealing with death every day, she learned surprising lessons about life--and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself."--
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 27
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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...
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"When a New York City construction crane mysteriously collapses, causing mass destruction and injury, Rhyme and Sachs are on the case. A political group claims responsibility for the sabotage and threatens another attack in twenty-four hours, unless its demands are met. The clock is ticking. Then a clue reveals to Rhyme that his nemesis, known as the Watchmaker, has come to town to fulfill his promise of murdering the criminalist. Now Rhyme and Sachs...
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Forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell has been invited by the Chinese government to teach a six-week course at the Beijing police university. She gets off to a bad start when her car knocks senior detective Li Yan off his bicycle. But Li soon finds himself reintroduced to Margaret by his superiors when the newly promoted detective's first case--one involving a hideously burned corpse--requires Margaret's special expertise. Thrown together to track...
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Forensic pathologist Patience Forbes is a whiz with the dead- it's flesh-and-blood men who wreck her equilibrium. And cowboy Forest Stevens isn't fooled by the guarded beauty's icy facade. So when she's attacked, he appoints himself her personal bodyguard. Her very personal bodyguard. Patience is determined to investigate mysterious bones on the Holiday Ranch- not fall into bed with her sexy protector. But Forest is too masculine, too willing to lay...
6) Grave danger
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Defenders of Battle Mountain volume 1
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She escaped a killer's clutches once Now this medical examiner needs to follow the clues to put him behind bars... Even changing her name hasn't helped Dr. Chloe Pascale feel safe. And when a young woman is discovered buried alive, the Colorado ME knows the relentless serial killer she barely escaped has found her. To stop him, she must trust police chief Weston Ford with her darkest secrets. But getting too close is putting their guarded hearts at...
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China novels volume 2
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The Chinese police have once more been forced to enlist the services of American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell, this time to investigate a series of four horrific ritual executions in Beijing.
Detective Li Yan is determined to discover just how one of the victims in particular, an American diplomat, became caught up in the slaying. And he is arguably even more determined to have nothing to do with Campbell, whom he finds simultaneously too...
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For her daughter to survive…She must unveil the truth.When her daughter, Josie, is brutally left for dead, Sage Sauter will stop at nothing to find out why. Enter forensic pathologist Dr. Michael O'Brien, the man who'd once changed Sage's life forever. As Michael investigates whether Josie's been targeted by a fearsome serial killer, Sage realizes he is her daughter's only hope for survival. But one secret Sage is keeping could destroy them all…...
11) Pieces of a life
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Life volume 03
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From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes a romantic, psychological thriller that critics call "unputdownable!"
The summer before fourth grade, Colten Mosley moved into the house across the street from mine, and we became inseparable.
He played the piano and baseball. I had a penchant for dead things while at the same time imagining what it would be like to kiss Colten. We were filled with curiosity and overly active imaginations.
We...
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Higgins and Hawke volume 1
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"Death by Rum Running... It's the hot and humid East Coast summer of 1930 and five years since Dr. Haley Higgins' brother Joe was murdered. The case has grown cold. The Boston Police Department may have given up on finding Joe Higgins' killer, but Haley never will. She's serious and savvy and has what it takes to hold up under depressive times. At least she finds some satisfaction doing her part as the city pathologist's assistant in solving other...
13) The runner
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In this fifth China Thriller, Chinese detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell are back in Beijing confronting a sinister sequence of murders which threatens to destroy the future of international athletics.
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"Desde las profundidades de las marismas de Luisiana, un asesino en serie aficionado a la experimentación médica está completando su proyecto más ambicioso: tras marcarlas de forma macabra, sus víctimas no cesan de aumentar y no hay pistas que seguir. Los medios lo apodan «el carnicero del pantano» y, hasta ahora, nadie ha podido atraparlo. Con su conocimiento enciclopédico de las mentes más oscuras y años de experiencia en la práctica...
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