Patricia Daniels Cornwell
1) Dust
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 21
Language
English
Description
Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she's awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino. A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT and it's suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineer Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. It appears she's been...
2) Red mist
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer. Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable deaths of homeless people...
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 7
Language
English
Description
An investigative reporter is found dead in Virginia's icy waters, and the case envelops Dr. Kay Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, and police captain Pete Marino.
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 8
Language
English
Description
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.
6) Livid
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 26
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 23
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. As Scarpetta watches, she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip...
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 25
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia as the chief medical examiner, the state where she launched her storied career. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, she's inherited not only an overbearing secretary, but also a legacy of neglect and potential corruption. She and her husband Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, have...
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 17
Language
English
Description
It is the week before Christmas and Dr Kay Scarpetta has offered her services pro bono to New York Citys Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast, she receives a startling call-in from...
10) Book of the dead
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 15
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta's new private forensic lab is not welcomed in Charleston and it doesn't help when her investigation into the death of U.S. tennis star, Drew Martin, connects to the body of an unidentified South Carolina boy.
11) Hornet's nest
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Deputy Chief Virginia West is told to escort Andy Brazil, a rookie reporter to the Charlotte, North Carolina paper, when another out-of-town businessman is found murdered in his hire car.
12) The front
Author
Language
English
Description
Dispatched by the district attorney to a declining Massachusetts neighborhood to address a case related to a new public relations campaign, state investigator Win Garano becomes involved with a loosely organized association of vigilante police officers.
13) Postmortem
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 1
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner, is called in to find forensic evidence to aid the police in their investigation of a killer who has strangled four women in Richmond, Virginia.
14) Flesh and blood
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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...
15) Port mortuary
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 18
Language
English
Description
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.
16) The bone bed
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 20
Language
English
Description
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.
17) Scarpetta
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 16
Language
English
Description
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.
19) Black notice
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 10
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta and policeman Pete Marino investigate a body found in a cargo ship that has recently arrived in Richmond, Virginia.
20) Point of origin
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 9
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia that has been destroyed by fire and finds a body in the ruins, suggesting that Carrie Grethen is planning revenge.