If You Like Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell gives us a strong character, Kay Scarpetta, whose role as forensic anthropologist pioneered a new perspective on crime and detection while capitalizing on the growing popularity of female detectives. Fans enjoy the wealth of scientific and medical details, and Cornwell's straightforward descriptions and explanations of the scientific data. Her fiction has complex plots, filled with satisfying twists. (goodreads.com)

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4 stars
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FIRST IN SERIES: 1st TO DIE
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Still reeling from her husband's betrayal, Lindsay Boxer investigates a wave of possibly unnatural heart attacks claiming the lives of seemingly unrelated victims while assisting the prosecution of a bomber with a hostile defense team.

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3.8 stars
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NEXT IN SERIES: HIDE
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When Bobby Dodge, a sniper with the Massachusetts State Police SWAT team, saves a woman and her young son from her armed husband, he finds himself investigating the shooting of a man who had accused his wife of poisoning their son.
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4.5 stars
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"Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future"--an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy man....
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4.5 stars
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NEXT IN SERIES: ALONE IN THE DARK
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Psychologist Faith Corcoran is desperate to escape the stalker who's made her life a nightmare for the past year - desperate enough to run to the one place that has been her nightmare far longer. Both boon and bane, her recent inheritance of her grandmother's old house in Cincinnati offers sanctuary in which she can start her life anew, but requires that she face the dark memories that still resonate to this day. But she has no idea how close to home...
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4.3 stars
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NEXT IN SERIES: THE APPRENTICE
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Dr. Catherine Cordell, recovering from a brutal attack and hiding her fear behind a mask of professionalism, is the only one that can stop a psychotic killer known as "The Surgeon," due to his horrific methods of murder, before he kills again.
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NEXT IN SERIES: CRASH & BURN