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1) Black notice
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta of Richmond, Virginia, investigates a body found in a ship's container from Europe. A tattoo on the body sends her flying to Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France, where she learns of a killer known as The Werewolf.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From the co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid, a thrilling debut novel told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads. Something dark is lurking in the Louisiana bayou: a methodical killer with a penchant for medical experimentation is hard at work completing his most harrowing crime yet, taunting the authorities who desperately try to catch up. But...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Virginia's chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta matches wits with a wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes. The case begins with a fire in which many horses die and the embers yield a human body.
4) Girl missing
Author
Language
English
Description
From Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, her stunning first thriller! A beautiful young woman's corpse is found dumped in a garbage-strewn alley. Now laid out in the office of medical examiner Kat Novak is an unidentified body that betrays no secrets'except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer...
5) Postmortem
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Language
English
Description
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 like no other, because it's being...
6) Chaos
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Series
Language
English
Description
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, the Cambridge Forensic Center's director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental act of God. Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a flurry...
Author
Language
English
Description
"As a medical examiner, Serena Hopkins is used to dealing with death. But that doesn't make it any easier when she's called to the eerie scene of a murder--especially when Serena realizes that she knows the victim. Nearly as unnerving is the presence of FBI agent Dominic Allen, her childhood crush. As evidence mounts and points to a serial killer with disturbingly familiar methods, Serena and Dominic must work to find a pattern and stop the killings...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"A reclusive author, Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls -- or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic evidence -- while unwittingly edging closer to a killer waiting in the shadows."--
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Language
English
Description
"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."--
10) When I'm dead
Author
Series
Black Harbor novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On a bone-chilling October night, Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp investigates the death of her daughter's best friend. Hours later, the tragedy hits even closer to home when she makes a devastating discovery--her daughter, Chloe, is gone. But, not without a trace. A morbid mosaic of clues forces Rowan and her husband to question how deeply they really knew their daughter. As they work closely to peel back the layers of this case, they begin to unearth...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
11:05 p.m. Convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the Commonwealth of Virginia's electric chair. His death is not the only newsworthy event on this cold December night. Three hours after young Eddie Heath goes out to buy a can of soup, his nude, grotesquely wounded body is found propped against a dumpster. The two events seem unrelated until chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta remembers that Waddell arranged his victim in a strikingly...
12) Cause of death
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The mysterious death of diver Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter, and the murder of a morgue assistant driving her car lead medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, her niece, and police captain Pete Marino on the trail of a deadly supremacist group.
13) Panacea
Author
Series
Ice sequence volume 1
Language
English
Description
Investigating two burned bodies connected by a mysterious tattoo and a string of baffling miracle cures, medical examiner Laura Hanning follows leads to a cult that claims to possess a fabled healing substance and a violent brotherhood that believes that God intends for humanity to suffer.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Gin Sullivan is back in her small hometown of Trumbull, Pennsylvania on an extended leave from her job at the Chicago medical examiner's office and rekindling an old flame with her high school sweetheart, Jake. Gin is readjusting to life at home when Jake receives harrowing news early one morning. The new housing development his construction firm is building has caught fire and underneath one of the burnt homes is a dead body.
Author
Series
Southern crimes volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When two women are killed on the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia, detective and behavioral specialist Avery North discovers they share something in common - a magnolia tattoo on their shoulders. Suspecting a serial killer, Avery joins forces with medical examiner Jackson Bryant to solve the crimes and prevent another murder. As they venture deep into a sinister criminal world, Avery and Jackson are taken to the very edge of their abilities - and their...
16) The last widow
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 9
Language
English
Description
A routine family shopping trip is shattered when Michelle Spivey is snatched as she leaves the mall with her young daughter. The police search for her, her partner pleads for her release, but in the end... they find nothing. A month later, on a sleepy Sunday afternoon, medical examiner Sara Linton is at lunch with her boyfriend Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, when the serenity of the summer's day is broken by the wail...
17) You belong to me
Author
Series
Baltimore novels (Karen Rose) volume 1
Language
English
Description
As she works with Baltimore homicide detective J.D. Fitzpatrick to catch a serial killer, medical examiner Dr. Lucy Trask tries keep him at arms length so that he never discovers the dark secret that links her to the killer.
18) The god gene
Author
Series
Ice sequence volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Rick Hayden and Laura Fanning of Panacea return, looking for the missing link. Rick's brother, Keith, a prominent zoologist at NYU, liquidated his assets, purged his research, and vanished, leaving no trace. Except for his resemblance to a man suspected of a homicide involving a nerve agent. The only clue is the mysterious death of an odd blue-eyed primate Keith brought back from East Africa. Rick and Laura's search takes them to an uncharted island...
19) Deja Dead
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Québec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern--and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her--her best friend and her own daughter--in mortal danger."
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
A serial killer is loose in Richmond, specializing in attractive young couples whose bodies are inevitably found in the woods months later-- minus their socks and shoes. After months of exposure to the elements, all that remains of this killer's victims has, in every case, left Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta unable even to determine an exact cause of death. Frustrated that her high-tech forensic skills have apparently proved useless, Kay...
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