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Blow Fly
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2 out of 5 stars
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So long and drawn out.
- By Kara Lou on 08-25-18
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Following the post mortem of a stowaway that reveals neither cause of death nor identity, Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to Paris in search of information. In Paris she is given a secret mission--one that could ruin her career.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now this is the Patricia Cornwell writing that is that is awesome
- By Toni on 11-23-15
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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 896
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 571
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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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4 out of 5 stars
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A little harsh?
- By Eileen on 03-15-05
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Point of Origin
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 534
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 480
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 476
Convicted serial killer Carrie Grethen has escaped from a psychiatric hospital with plans for revenge. Wary and shaken, Scarpetta also has to investigate the death by fire of an unknown woman. The post mortem reveals that the woman was stabbed before the fire was started, and soon Scarpetta and her colleagues are called out to the scene of another fire and another murder.
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3 out of 5 stars
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good story, poor performance
- By JR on 05-16-15
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Book of the Dead
- Scarpetta, Book 15
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,355
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 607
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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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Unnatural Exposure
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: C.J. Critt
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,174
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 841
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 833
The body of an elderly woman is found dismembered in a Virginia landfill. Scarpetta initially believes the clues mirror that of a serial killer she's tracked before. But upon further investigation, she discovers puzzling pox-like erruptions on the woman's body that, perhaps, point in another direction.
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4 out of 5 stars
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narrator
- By Donna on 07-12-07
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Blow Fly
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 413
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2 out of 5 stars
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So long and drawn out.
- By Kara Lou on 08-25-18
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Black Notice
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 601
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 539
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 538
Following the post mortem of a stowaway that reveals neither cause of death nor identity, Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to Paris in search of information. In Paris she is given a secret mission--one that could ruin her career.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Now this is the Patricia Cornwell writing that is that is awesome
- By Toni on 11-23-15
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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 896
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 571
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 576
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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Point of Origin
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 534
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 480
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 476
Convicted serial killer Carrie Grethen has escaped from a psychiatric hospital with plans for revenge. Wary and shaken, Scarpetta also has to investigate the death by fire of an unknown woman. The post mortem reveals that the woman was stabbed before the fire was started, and soon Scarpetta and her colleagues are called out to the scene of another fire and another murder.
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3 out of 5 stars
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good story, poor performance
- By JR on 05-16-15
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Book of the Dead
- Scarpetta, Book 15
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,355
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 607
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Story4 out of 5 stars 604
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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Unnatural Exposure
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: C.J. Critt
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,174
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 841
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 833
The body of an elderly woman is found dismembered in a Virginia landfill. Scarpetta initially believes the clues mirror that of a serial killer she's tracked before. But upon further investigation, she discovers puzzling pox-like erruptions on the woman's body that, perhaps, point in another direction.
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4 out of 5 stars
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narrator
- By Donna on 07-12-07
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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 1,405
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 704
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 708
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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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 1,190
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 693
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Story4 out of 5 stars 699
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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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 287
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Love Scarpetta
- By Anonymous User on 01-14-19
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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 1,340
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 763
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Story4 out of 5 stars 774
Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell's 18th Scarpetta novel, is literally a port for the dead. 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 accepted a scholarship from the air force to pay off her medical school debt. Now, more than 20 years and many career successes later, her secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base, where she has been immersed in a training fellowship.
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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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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 1,194
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,027
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,027
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Exciting
- By Gloria on 08-27-12
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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 1,999
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,656
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,661
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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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 1,510
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,304
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,295
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 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 1,609
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,375
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,375
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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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 1,611
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,418
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,422
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
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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 1,663
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,438
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,425
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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Depraved Heart
- A Scarpetta Novel, Book 23
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,327
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2,103
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,099
Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene 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 20 years ago. As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece. That film clip and others sent soon after raise dangerous legal implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her confused, worried, and not knowing where to turn.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Depraved heart
- By Linda on 10-28-15
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Chaos
- A Scarpetta Novel
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,005
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,790
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,786
In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, 26-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 of bizarre poems from an anonymous cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Surprised
- By Amazon Customer on 11-26-16
Publisher's Summary
The eleventh Scarpetta novel, in which the chief medical examiner is under a grand jury investigation for murder. She knows she's being framed, and she no longer knows who she can trust....
Physically and psychologically bruised by her encounter with the killer Chandonne, Dr. Kay Scarpetta has to leave her home in the hands of the police team investigating the attack. She finds shelter with an old friend, Anna Zenner, but it is not the haven of security she needs when she discovers that Anna has been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury that is investigating Scarpetta for murder. Kay knows she is being framed, and she knows she can trust no one.
Meanwhile it appears that Chandonne killed a woman in New York before his murderous spree in Virginia, but when Scarpetta looks more closely into that case with New York prosecutor Jaime Berger, proof of his guilt is far from certain--in fact she begins to believe he may not be the perpetrator of any of the crimes of which he is accused. As she follows the forensic trail to the real killer, she gradually realizes that someone has been spinning a web for years with the aim of entrapping her. Who is it, and why are they so desperate to be rid of her?
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- Zion Peace
- 08-17-16
WHAT?
Didn't. want the story to end. Kay and Marino are quite the pair. Excellent read.
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- Sinnamon
- 07-18-16
Great read
I was thrilled with another great read by Cornwell! Narrative was preformed well. On to the next book by Patricia Cornwell!
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- jeanne delcambre
- 02-09-16
Favorite scarpetta novel so far!
Excellent story, well developed characters and plot-excellent narration! Liked how all came together at end-great listen!
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- LJT
- 11-22-15
Absolutely Fantastic! This is a MUST Audio.
If you are a series FAN..you will be CAPTIVATED .So Well done!! Do Not Miss.
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- kimr
- 07-08-15
Awesome
Great mystery and thrilling sleuthing. Always turns in a different direction than I see coming!
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- Shauna M. Robeson
- 06-01-15
Loved it!
The narrator really captured the energy of Cornwell's characters as well as Cornwell's impressive storytelling style. They make a good team.
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- Tammy
- 06-16-17
Narrator awesome & story makes u not want to stop!
Another great scarpetta book that leaves you waiting for the next one to see where she's going & what's next! Narrator did voices amazingly well! Accents of German, French, Italian & great imitation of Marino. Greatly enjoyed!
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- Melissa
- 03-19-17
One of her best.
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I have read them all and I am going for a repeat on the series.
What did you like best about this story?
Constant moving action. Dr Scarpetta is interesting and interested. Some of her previous books have her as depressed or overly brooding. This book may have been her best in the series.
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- Jennifer
- 12-19-15
Another Winner from Patricia Cornwell.
I LOVED this book. I love Kay Scarpetta and Marino. Those two make a great team. I look forward to the next novel. Sure hope it's as good as this one.
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-16-15
Novembers and a new Scarpetta book
Day is a huge joy on my life. I,re read these series,since I was 22
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