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1) Livid
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"Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen’s body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fiancé, who has since been held in jail while awaiting trial. Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case—an investigation previously botched by another forensic pathologist. After a grueling cross-examination...
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"The book of the dead is the morgue log. For Kay Scarpetta, it has a new meaning. Moving to Charleston, she opens a forensic pathology practice in which she and her colleagues, including Pete Marion and her niece, Lucy, offer expert crime-scene investigation and autopsies to communities that lack access to modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation, until the battles start with local politicians, with entrenched interests, with someone whose...
3) The Bone Bed
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In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind all this? And whom can Scarpetta trust? Her lead...
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