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,...

The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log in which all cases are entered. For Kay, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her battle with a psychopath in Florida, Kay moves to South...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Written by Patricia Cornwell, author of 'Post-mortem', 'Hornet's Nest', and 'Isle of Dogs', this is the second novel to feature Winston Garano.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...