Dr Kay Scarpetta awaits the body of executed killer Joe Waddell. But that night a murder is committed that bears all the hallmarks of the dead man.

‘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,...

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...

Deputy Chief Virginia West likes her boss, but when a number of visiting businessmen are murdered in her city by a maniac with a penchant for painting his victims bright orange, she objects to his...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Judy Hammer has accepted the challenge of Richmond, Virginia's police department to try and reverse the escalating crime statistics in the city. She brings with her Deputy Chief Virginia West and...