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All That Remains
Young lovers are being targeted and murdered. Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is unable to find cause of death in the first four couples because...

Black Notice
An unidentified corpse arrives in a cargo ship, offering precious clues as to the murdered man's identity. Enter Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta,...

Blow Fly
Kay Scarpetta has become a private forensic consultant after leaving her job of many years as the Chief Medical Examiner for Virginia. Kay meets Nic ...

Body of Evidence
An author, Beryl Madison, ends up in the Chief Medical Examiner's office as a patient. Her death seems to revolve around the manuscript she was writi...

Cause of Death
While relieving one of Virginia's Medical Examiners due to a family emergency, Kay, the Chief M.E., encounters more than she bargined for. Her first...

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Cruel and Unusual
Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner, Kay Scarpetta, must autopsy a convicted murderer after the execution. Afterwards, a murder occured with the execut...



From Potter's Field
When a young woman is murdered and propped up against a fountain in a New York park, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects based on the simila...

From Potters Field
Temple Brookes Gault, Kay Scarpetta's nemesis, is back, and his new victim is a young woman found nude and shot in Central Park. Soon, Kay finds hers...

Hornet's Nest
Charlotte Observer police beat reporter Andy Brazil is tired of his life after college. He lives with his shut in, alcoholic mother and works out whe...

Isle Of Dogs
Trooper Andy Brazil starts a new website that becomes the focus of much confusion. The Governor, his family and staff, the Chief of Police, a crooked...

Point Of Origin
Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta finds herself facing her nemesis, Carrie Grethen. Unsure of how Carrie is involved, she must probe deeper into C...

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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed (Thriller/Action)
To solve a century-old murder sometimes it takes the mind of a crime novelist to think as a killer would. In her book, Portrait of a Killer: Jack the...

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed (Biography)
This is a book about using science/facts to determine who Jack the Ripper was, therefore it's hard to really classify this book. It focuses on Walter...

Post Mortem
Dr. Scarpetta is looking into the deaths of four young women who all seem to be killed the same way- she suspects a serial killer and the whole town i...

Postmortem
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, medical examiner, is on the case of a serial killer. She and/or her office is also being blamed for the leaks about the case to t...

Predator
Now a Director of the National Forensic Academy, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is able to use her formidable skills on myriad investigations. But someone is aw...

Southern Cross
A gang is committing crimes in Richmond, Virginia. A string of ATM robberies turns to vicious murder. Andy Brazil works with Chief Hammer and Depurt...

Patricia Cornwell novels

The Body Farm
Chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the super sleuth of Patricia Cornwell's series of forensic-based crime novels, has returned for another diff...

The Last Precinct
After thwarting a murder attempt, Kay Scarpetta finds herself coping by busying herself in her work. A series of grisly murders appear to be unconnect...

Trace
Kate Scarpetta, a former Chief medical examiner in Virginia, Richmond, now resides in South Florida. She, along with her good friend, Marino, also fo...

Unnatural Exposure
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner, was investigating suspected multiple homicides by a single killer in England when a female torso...

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