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41) Point of Origin
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kay must find a killer who uses fire to mask his crimes and when she learns that her old nemesis is somehow involved, the investigation becomes personal.
42) Fatal cure
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Formats
Description
Doctors Angela and David Wilson think they've found personal and professional bliss when they arrive at rural Bartlet, Vermont, a sleepy little village with a state-of-the-art medical facility-a necessity for their daughter, Nikki, who has cystic fibrosis. But Angela's curiosity is aroused when she notices puzzling details inthe deaths of several terminal patients, many of them children with cystic fibrosis. The couple is in a state of near panic...
43) Doctor on trial
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Doctor Kate Forrester is put on trial for malpractice and manslaughter when a billionaire's daughter dies.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow and Co
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Shortly after the death of her hemophiliac husband, Grace Cameron learns that she has AIDS and must gather her strength to find a loving home for her daughter, Kathy, while fighting off the demands of her domineering Uncle Harry who wants to take control of Kathy's life.
Author
Series
Dr. Thomas Parks novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"The young Dr. Thomas Parks expects to practice trauma medicine with a distinguished doctor in Port McKinney, Washington. What he does not expect is to be nearly killed within an hour of arriving. The accident changes his life, and with long hours of painful convalescence, Thomas makes a sobering discovery: the physician who has invited Thomas to join his practice is not what he seems. At the center of the conflict is mail-order diagnosis, which flourished...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Its been more than thirty years since New York City medical examiner Jack Stapletons college graduation and almost as long since hed been in touch with former classmates Shawn Doherty and Kevin Murray. Once a highly regarded ophthalmologist, Jacks career took a dramatic turn after a tragic accident that destroyed his family. But that, too, is very much in the past: Jack has remarriedto longtime colleague and...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, on assignment with the FBI, gets involved in a Christmas Eve murder in New York City. She must identify the dead female before the serial killer whose work this is finds Scarpetta's niece.
"In Richmond, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner of Virginia and consultant for the FBI, is in the midst of a late-night autopsy at the morgue when the call comes: Gault, the sadistic psychopath who has eluded capture for years, has struck...
Author
Series
Edwina Crusoe medical mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
51) Soul flame
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1987.
Language
English
Description
Selene, 16, daughter of a Roman slave, discovers that she has healing powers which she uses to survive, and in Rome, is accepted as the granddaughter of Cleopatra and Caesar.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A disgruntled Russian immigrant joins forces with extremists from the People's Aryan Army to launch a campaign of terror against New York with anthrax. Two forensic pathologists get wind of the scheme and go after him. By the author of Chromosome 6.
53) Cause of Death
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War takes Scarpetta 30 feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. Ted Eddings, an investiagtive reporter who was a favorite at the Medical Examiner's office, has died while scuba diving. Was Eddings probing the frigid depths of the river for sunken trinkets -- or was he after a story?
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Successful pediatrician Marah Morgan returns home to help run the family farm after her father suffers a disabling injury. Marah finds herself reluctant to help a man who has not shown her the love she longs for and who holds the key to a tragedy from her childhood. When government archaeologists arrive to excavate Indian burial grounds on the Morgan farm, Marah becomes suspicious. Then a mysterious farmhand arrives, a man who both fascinates and...
56) Port mortuary
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Many years ago, Kay Scarpetta accepted a scholarship from the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt. These military ties have taken her to the port mortuary aat Dover Air Force Base for a training fellowship. Upon her return to the Cambridge Forensic Center, Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility. A young man drops dead, but when his body is examined the next morning, there are indications that he may have...