Five years after being sacked as Chief Medical Examiner, Dr Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, and she is back with a vengeance. Her return, as consultant pathologist in the mysterious...

Lorelei King reads this suspenseful Scarpetta novel from internationally bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding,...

When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodland areas, Chief Medical Examiner Scarpetta is unable to determine the cause of death. Then the daughter of one of the...

Richmond, Virginia: a serial killer is on the loose. Dr Kay Scarpetta is called in to help track the killer. The first book in the internationally bestselling Kay Scarpetta series.

Kay Scarpetta’s work as Virginia’s Chief Medical Examiner has come to an end. Fearing that she is about to be fired by the governor, and hounded in the media for what some claimed was her...

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, and at the Cambridge Forensic...

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 examine an injured patient in a psychiatric...

Lorelei King reads this thrilling Scarpetta story from bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, digs into a case more...

The post mortem performed by Dr Scarpetta initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for...

The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased...

Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone calls to the reclusive writer. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West. And the very night she returns,...

‘Book of the Dead will keep you gripped throughout’ – Heat.

The ‘book of the dead’ is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta,...

Using the firsthand expertise she has gained through writing the Dr Kay Scarpetta novels, Patricia Cornwell has used the demanding methods of modern forensic investigation to re-examine the...

Lorelei King reads this thrilling Kay Scarpetta novel from bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta...

Superintendent Judy Hammer is at her wits' end trying to protect the public from the politicians - and vice versa. An island off the coast of Virginia declares UDI - claiming its independence lies...