Patricia Cornwell

Four books in the #1 New York Times bestselling series by the author of Flesh and Blood featuring Kay Scarpetta—"an awesome force in the field of forensic science.” (New York Times Book Review)
Includes The Last Precinct, Predator, Blow Fly, and Book of the Dead.

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.

Five action-packed thrillers in the #1 New York Times bestselling Scarpetta series: Cause of Death, Unnatural Exposure, Point of Origin, and Trace.

“Cornwell remains the master of incorporating real-life science into pulse-pounding fiction.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

IN DEVELOPMENT AS THE ORIGINAL SERIES SCARPETTA STARRING NICOLE KIDMAN AND JAMIE LEE...

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.

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...

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.

Now freelancing from South Florida, Kay Scarpetta is asked to return to Richmond, Virginia, where she is faced with solving the death of a fourteen-year-old girl, while Benton and Lucy are embroilled in what at first appears to be an unrelated attack by a stalker.

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.

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...

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.