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....

Against her own judgement, Kay Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on the case involving the death of a 14-year-old girl....

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....

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....

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

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.

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....

Winston Garano, a police investigator, is instructed to look into a 20-year-old murder case....

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....

Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City....

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....

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

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....

It's New Year's Eve, the final night of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, and another poor soul has turned up dead....

Captain Calli Chase races against time to thwart a plot that leaves the fate of humanity hanging in the balance in this new thriller from international best-selling author Patricia Cornwell....

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....

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....