Patricia Cornwell

Nobel laureate and advisor to the White House, Sal Giordano, is found dead in the middle of an abandoned theme park. When Virginia's chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta is alerted about the case, she's warned that the victim is someone she knows. When she hears who it is, she's devastated.

Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralysed the city....

A reclusive author, Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls - or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched....

An intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta book which will take Kay an ocean's breadth away from home....

In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses....

Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is under suspicion and criminal investigation....

Dr. Kay Scarpetta has left Virgina in quest of peace, but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida....

Carrie Grethen, partner in crime to William Temple Gault, has escaped from prison....

The morning after North Virginia's deadliest Halloween on record, forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta is pulled away from her caseload to investigate a chilling crime.

Number one New York Times best-selling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the 24th engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta....

Florida is full of predators, from the animals who thrive in its heat to the humans who stalk the malls....

The book of the dead is the morgue log in which all cases are entered. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning....

The body of a woman has been discovered inside the gates of MIT, draped in an unusual cloth....

Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia: separated by thousands of miles - linked by murder. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland five years ago....

Filled with tension and continual surprises, Unnatural Exposure is a thrilling chapter in Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta's life....

Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has returned to Virginia as the chief medical examiner. She and her husband Benton are headquartered five miles from the Pentagon, in a post-pandemic world that’s been torn apart by civil and political unrest....

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....

On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call....

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....

Deputy Chief Virginia West likes her boss. But she doesn't like his edict that a rookie reporter accompany her on patrol while a homicidal maniac is loose....