Dr. Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of a woman who has been terrified by a stalker.

When a horoscope writer is found dead in her garage, the only fingerprint found on the scene seems to belong to a convicted criminal who was executed before her death.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and consulting forensic pathologist for the FBI, is called in when a dead body is found naked in New York's Central Park, and the manner of death suggests that Temple Gault is back at work.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta tries to discover whether five dismembered beheaded bodies found in Ireland years ago are connected to the four discovered in the United States, but when a fifth body is found with vital discrepancies, investigators suspect the killer is armed with smallpox.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta and policeman Pete Marino investigate a body found in a cargo ship that has recently arrived in Richmond, Virginia.

Kay Scarpetta, stripped of her title and power and having left Richmond for Florida, attempts to help policewoman Nic Robillard with a Louisiana case involving abducted women.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowbound Boston; one that at first appears as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team -- Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli -- to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the...

Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked for her to examine an injured patient on Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison ward.

As the chief of the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility and ruin her personal and professional life.

An eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. She just may be on her own this time--against an enormously powerful and cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.

It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday, and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids' game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there's been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning--except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta,...

Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fianč, who has since been held in jail while awaiting trial. Scarpetta must act as the expert witness for the case, an investigation previously botched by another forensic pathologist. After a grueling cross-examination...