Annie & Terry Eccles seemed to have it all. Until a masked attacker crept into their home, brutally murdering them in their beds.

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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 two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures, & trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age. When she turns to those around her, Scarpetta finds that the danger & suspicion have penetrated even her closest circles. Her niece Lucy speaks in riddles. Her lead investigator Pete Marino & FBI husband Benton Wesley have secrets of their own. Feeling alone & betrayed, Scarpetta is tempted by someone from her past as she tracks a killer both cunning & cruel. ...

The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's number 1 bestselling crime writer. In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, & 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. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold. 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? & whom can Scarpetta trust? Her lead investigator Pete Marino & FBI husband Benton Wesley are both unhappy with her because of personnel changes at the CFC, & her niece Lucy has become even more secretive than usual. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own this time
- against an enormously powerful & cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.
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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 two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures, & trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age. & Scarpetta finds that the danger & suspicion have penetrated her closest circles. ...

No crime can stay hidden forever.

When a hurricane hits the Carolinas it uncovers two bodies, sharing uncanny similarities

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New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper & killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job. Rhyme reluctantly postpones his ambitions towards suicide & puts together a forensic investigation team, enlisting as his eyes & ears young police officer Amelia Sachs. Rhyme digs deep into the only world he has left
- his astonishing mind
- & slowly begins to narrow the noose around the Bone Collector. But the kidnapper is narrowing his own noose
- around Lincoln Rhyme.


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New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper & killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job. Rhyme reluctantly postpones his ambitions towards suicide & puts together a forensic investigation team, enlisting as his eyes & ears young police officer Amelia Sachs. Rhyme digs deep into the only world he has left
- his astonishing mind
- & slowly begins to narrow the noose around the Bone Collector. But the kidnapper is narrowing his own noose
- around Lincoln Rhyme. This flipback book has 771 pages & is 8.2cm x 11.9cm x 1.2cm


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1990. A young woman goes missing while backpacking in Thail&.

She is never seen again.

2016.  Her bones

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Read by Laurel Lefkow. Julia Hamill is gardening one afternoon in rural Massachusetts when her spade strikes something soft & unyielding
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Contains free paperback of Bones of Betrayal! Bill Brockton is exhuming a body to obtain a bone sample for a paternity test. A simple enough job until he discovers that the body's limbs have all been removed. Digging deeper, he soon finds himself embroiled in the massive & very illegal market for human body parts. He becomes drawn into the enterprise, selling donated corpses to the postmortem chop shop
- in league with the FBI, hoping to bring the organization down. All the while, his friend & Medical Examiner, Eddie Garcia, is struggling with the aftermath of their last case. A massive dose of radiation has left him missing one hand & most of the fingers from the other. He's on the waiting list for a transplant, but with so many parts around, Brockton is sorely tempted to jeopardize the investigation
- & his own principles
- to help his friend. Will he be able to live with himself if he does? Will he be able to live with himself if he doesn't?


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