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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Carrie Grethen, partner in crime to William Temple Gault, has escaped from prison. Before she does so she sends a message to Kay Scarpetta blaming her for Gault's death, and has specific plans for...

‘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,...