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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 23
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"Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip...
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April Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a local scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Her friend, Phoebe Griffin, suspects the worst. Phoebe seeks out Quirke, her brilliant but erratic father, for help. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke uses his knowledge of the darker byways of the city to investigate April's disappearance.
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Quirke mysteries volume 2
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"Quirke, an irascible, hard-drinking Dublin pathologist, investigates the apparent suicide of Deidre Hunt, the beautiful young wife of an old acquaintance, and discovers many things that might better have remained hidden, as well as grave danger to those he loves."--From publisher description.
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Nora Gavin and Cormac Maguire series volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2003
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328 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
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Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil--human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, medical student Norris Marshall has joined the ranks of local "resurrectionists"--those who plunder graveyards and harvest...
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 22
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In her 22nd outing, master forensic sleuth Kay Scarpetta finds herself in pursuit of a serial sniper whose perfect shots cause instant death, and who leaves no evidence except fragments of copper. The victims appear to have nothing in common, and there is no pattern to indicate where the killer will strike next. Then, while investigating a South Florida shipwreck, Scarpetta comes face to face with shocking evidence that implicates her techno genius...
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Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is the reluctant star witness in a sensational murder trial when she receives shocking news. The judge’s sister has been found dead. At first glance, it appears to be a home invasion, but then why was nothing stolen, and why is the garden strewn with dead plants and insects? Although there is no apparent cause of death, Scarpetta recognizes telltale signs of the unthinkable, and she knows the worst is yet to...
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Quirke mysteries volume 5
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Detective Inspector Hackett and his occasional partner Quirke investigate the suicide of a prominent Irish businessman, but when a second death occurs, Hackett and Quirke uncover evidence of a secret that threatens to destroy other members of Dublin's elite.
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Scarpetta volume 22
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2016.
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429 pages ; 24 cm.
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"La doctora Kay Scarpetta esta a punto de volar a Miami con su esposo, cuando ve siete monedas en la pared situada detras de su casa de Cambridge. Se trata de un juego infantil? Por que todas las monedas son de 1981 y tan brillantes como si fuesen recien acunadas? Al mismo tiempo, le informan que han cometido un homicidio a cinco minutos de distancia: un profesor de musica del instituto ha recibido un disparo de horrorosa precision cuando estaba descargando...
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Quirke mysteries volume 1
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Returning to the morgue where he works after an office party, Dublin pathologist Quirke stumbles across a body that should not have been there, as well as his brother-in-law, pediatrician Malachy Griffin, altering a file to cover up the corpse's cause ofdeath.
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 16
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Leaving behind her Charleston forensic pathology practice to accept an assignment in New York City, Kay Scarpetta learns the story of an injured psychiatric patient who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time.
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Zando
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2022.
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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 forensic pathologist Dr. Wren Muller is the best there is. Armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of historical crimes, and years of experience working in the Medical Examiner's office, she's never encountered a case she...
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2011
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"On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell - known to his many enemies as Diamond Dick - is discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast. But is it suicide or murder? Detective Inspector Hackett calls in his old friend Quirke, who has unusual access to Dublin's elite, for help. As a record heat wave envelops the city, and the secret deals underpinning Diamond Dick's empire begin to be revealed, Quirke and Hackett find...
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"Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is a brain tumor. A specialist diagnoses an old head injury caused by a savage beating; all that's needed, the doctor declares, is an extended rest. But Quirke, ever intent on finding his place among the living, is not about to retire. One night during a June heat wave, a car crashes into a tree in central...
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BBC
Pub. Date
[2017]
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2 DVDs (348 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Sam is now Professor Ryan, teaching pathology at London University. But still available for consultation on unusual cases which demand her highly developed professional skills and tenacity. A helicopter crash, a gangland killing and a cinema fire also occupy Sam's attention.
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