Book 1

Postmortem

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 9 February 1990
A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedroom. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical officer, is awakened...Read more

Book 2

Body of Evidence

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 8 March 1991
A reclusive writer is dead. And her final manuscript has disappeared ...Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West - but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably...Read more

Book 3

All That Remains

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 1 January 1992
#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta for the third installment of this classic suspense fiction series.

In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as...

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Book 4

Cruel And Unusual

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 1 June 1993

The fourth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times

The fingerprints say the murderer is the man who's just been executed . . .

At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell...Read more

Book 5

The Body Farm

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 31 July 1994
"Little Emily Steiner left a church meeting late one afternoon and strolled toward home along a lakeside path; a week later, her nude body was discovered, bound in blaze-orange duct tape. Called by the North Carolina authorities, forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta recognizes similarities to the gruesome work of a...Read more

Book 6

From Potter's Field

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 1 August 1995

The sixth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times

Christmas had never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta. Although a holiday for most, it always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's...Read more

Book 7

Cause Of Death

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 1 January 1996

The seventh book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times


An investigative reporter is found dead in Virginia's icy waters . . .

New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year takes Scarpetta...Read more

Book 8

Unnatural Exposure

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 1 January 1997
Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia, investigates a ghoulish murder and then discovers that he is armed with the most lethal weapon possible, smallpox.

Book 9

Point Of Origin

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 6 July 1998
Carrie Grethen escapes and begins a horrific vendetta against those who put her in prison.

Book 10

Black Notice

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 1 January 1992
An intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean's breadth away from home. The case begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond, Virginia's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. The...Read more

Book 11

The Last Precinct

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 27 September 2000

The eleventh book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times

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...Read more

Book 12

Blow Fly

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 1 January 2003

The twelfth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times


After her resignation as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and the horrifying events which threatened her life in The Last Precinct, Kay Scarpetta has abandoned her elegant...Read more

Book 13

Trace

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 1 September 2004
Since POSTMORTEM garnered critical acclaim and a record-breaking five awards for a first crime novel, the Scarpetta novels have often been imitated, but never bettered. Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece, Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist...Read more

Book 14

Predator

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 1 September 2005

The fourteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times

Florida is full of human predators, and they all give Dr Kay Scarpetta the opportunity and the means to do what she does best - persuading the...Read more

Book 15

Book Of The Dead

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 1 October 2007

The fifteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times

The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to...Read more

Book 16

Scarpetta

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 27 November 2008

The sixteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times


Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to...Read more

Book 17

The Scarpetta Factor

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 1 October 2009

The seventeenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from the No. 1 bestselling author
'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times

It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office...Read more

Book 18

Port Mortuary

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 28 October 2010

The eighteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.
'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times


Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science....Read more

Book 19

Red Mist

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 24 November 2011

Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer.

Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers...

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Book 20

The Bone Bed

by Patricia Cornwell

Published 1 October 2012

The twentieth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.

'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times


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...

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