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Now this is the Patricia Cornwell writing that is that is awesome
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great story
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Trace
- Scarpetta, Book 13
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In Trace, Kay Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isn't the one who requested her after all; her old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he won't reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent meddles with the case.
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A little harsh?
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Cause of Death
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It's New Year's Eve, the final night of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, and another poor soul has turned up dead. Ted Eddings, a scuba diver and investigative reporter who was a favorite at the medical examiner's office, is found 30 feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for the state of Virginia, can't help but wonder why she received a phone call from someone reporting the death before the police were notified.
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Love Scarpetta
- By Anonymous User on 01-14-19
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WHAT?
- By Zion Peace on 08-17-16
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Blow Fly
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 419
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 378
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in search of peace but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida, where she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great story
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Trace
- Scarpetta, Book 13
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 844
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 526
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 531
In Trace, Kay Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isn't the one who requested her after all; her old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he won't reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent meddles with the case.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A little harsh?
- By Eileen on 03-15-05
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Cause of Death
- Kay Scarpetta Series, Book 7
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: C. J. Critt
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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5 out of 5 stars
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Book of the Dead
- Scarpetta, Book 15
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,322
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 577
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Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace. Moving to Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues, including Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy, offer expert crime-scene investigation and autopsy services to communities lacking local access to competent death investigation and modern technology.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Rare Occurrence
- By Eva Gannon on 10-29-07
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Cruel and Unusual
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: C. J. Critt
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 963
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 962
When an executed murderer’s fingerprints turn up at a new crime scene, Kay Scarpetta investigates. Prepare for the kind of riveting suspense this best-selling author delivers so well.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not her best work
- By Kindle Customer on 10-02-13
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Scarpetta
- Scarpetta, Book 16
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,365
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 671
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 675
Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk - and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't waste your money
- By Becky on 01-20-09
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All That Remains
- A Scarpetta Novel
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: C. J. Critt
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,427
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,239
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,231
A serial killer is stalking Virginia’s young lovers, taking their lives and taunting police with a single clue: a jack of hearts. For two years, the meaning of this card has eluded FBI investigators. But as Scarpetta begins searching the victims’ remains for microscopic clues, she begins to suspect that someone in the FBI knows more about the murderer.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good early one...
- By karen on 01-10-15
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The Scarpetta Factor
- Scarpetta, Book 17
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 668
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Story4 out of 5 stars 674
It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta - despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN - to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By Lee on 10-22-09
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Port Mortuary
- Scarpetta, Book 18
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Kate Burton
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,313
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 740
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Story4 out of 5 stars 751
In this fast-paced story, a treacherous path from Scarpetta's past merges with the high tech highway she now finds herself on. We travel back to the beginning of her professional career, when she enlisted in the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt and found herself ensnared in a gruesome case of what seemed to be vicious, racially motivated hate crimes against two Americans in South Africa.
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2 out of 5 stars
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once again angry
- By teresa gooch ross on 12-09-10
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Body of Evidence
- A Scarpetta Novel
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: C. J. Critt
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,567
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,361
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,348
Late one night Beryl Madison turns off her burglar alarm, puts down her gun and opens her door to the man who has stalked and terrorized her for months. Hours later, her brutally mutilated body lies in the city morgue. As Scarpetta begins searching for the microscopic clues to the killer’s identity, one question keeps nagging her: why did Beryl let him in?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well writen & performed. Kept me guessing .
- By Ray on 12-01-12
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Red Mist
- Scarpetta, Book 19
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Kate Burton
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,955
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,620
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,625
Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people as far away as California seem unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding's death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too much dialog, too little story
- By Rene on 12-12-11
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The Bone Bed
- Scarpetta, Book 20
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,569
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,342
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,342
A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over 2,000 miles away, in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect that the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes - much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures, and trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A tedious disappointment - Don't Bother!
- By GH on 10-25-12
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Dust
- Scarpetta, Book 21
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,637
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,436
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,430
After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Way too much angst
- By Cindy on 01-19-14
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Postmortem
- A Scarpetta Novel
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: C. J. Critt
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,095
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2,711
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,706
Four young women have been found murdered—tortured and strangled in their own beds—all victims of the same brilliant monster. Using a skilled hand and the latest technology in forensic medicine, Kay Scarpetta begins the process of gathering the microscopic clues the latest battered body has to give.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Forgot how much I loved the old Scarpetta novels
- By Janie on 03-29-12
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Flesh and Blood
- A Scarpetta Novel, Book 22
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,568
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,384
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,388
It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday, and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids' game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there's been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Series badly needs to change focus
- By GH on 11-25-14
Publisher's Summary
Carrie Grethen, partner in crime to William Temple Gault, has escaped from prison. Before she does so, she sends a message to Kay Scarpetta blaming her for Gault's death, and has specific plans for revenge.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Donna
- 12-30-12
Fascinating but grim
You really need to read these books in order to understand Cornwell's meticulous character and plot development. A very fascinating if grim read with truly excelent narration as ever.
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- Lavendar
- 11-05-18
brilliant!
so sad that Benton is gone. I love how Lorelei King reads these stories, she is amazing. another wonderful Scarpetter story. thank you Patricia Cornwell.