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After months of menacing phone calls and feeling t… More. Shelve Body of Evidence. Book 3. All That Remains by Patricia Cornwell. In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So … More. Shelve All That Remains. Book 4. Book 5. The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell. The Body Farm - a research institute that tests th… More. Shelve The Body Farm. Book 6. From Potter's Field by Patricia Cornwell. Christmas has never been a particularly good time … More. Shelve From Potter's Field.
Book 7. Cause of Death by Patricia Cornwell. Shelve Cause of Death. Book 8. Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell. See alternate cover edition here Virginia Medical E… More.
Shelve Unnatural Exposure. Book 9. Point of Origin by Patricia Cornwell. After leaving her job as a journalist behind, in she started working with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia, where she stayed for six years. This is the very place that her fictional character, Kay Scarpetta, would work in as well. Her first novel, Postmortem , was written during this time, and while initially it was not successfully received, it was eventually published and it became the first book in her popular crime series.
Of course, when we mentioned Patricia Cornwell, we mostly think of the famous Scarpetta series , featuring the Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, working in Massachusetts. It is really the book that started a new trend with CSI style novels — forensic anthropology mystery books — that would take the fiction genre by storm.
She also created two additional crime series focusing on Andy Brazil, a young journalist turned cop in Virginia, as well as another other series with center stage taken by Win Garano in Boston. It is the 24th book in the Kay Scarpetta series. Just like Dan Brown, Patricia Cornwell had also legal issues. The author of the Virginia Ghost Murders , Leslie Sachs, accused Patricia of plagiarism for her The Last Precinct novel, saying that the two books have too many similarities to be a mere coincidence.
Sachs also was permanently banned from defaming Patricia Cornwell in any shape or form in the future. In addition, the trials and tribulations of our favorite author were far from over. At some point in her career, she was investigated for a full year by the FBI for political campaign finance fraud.
In her book Depraved Heart, Patricia Cornwell made sure to point out just how useless the FBI is at times since they want to get people even when they are completely innocent. This was something like a literary revenge for what she had to endure at the hands of the FBI during that fateful year.
The question is relevant to her 3 mystery series, but most importantly to her Kay Scarpetta series in order. You will see not only Kay Scarpetta developing her personality through the books, but you will also get to learn her relationship with her niece, Lucy Farinelli, which is worth learning about for the intensity of it.
Overall sure, you can read them in any order you choose as the action evolved one story per book, but the characters develop, mature and progress from novel to novel. Worth not missing out on it. Read below or add a comment The best and only books I read are kay scarpetta novels!!!!! You are truly the most gifted writer ever! I have all the books in the Scarpetta books and shelve them in date order.
Over time I have re-read the entire series three times. I guess it should be clear I really enjoy them. Thank you Patricia Cornwell! I know what you mean Jac! The narrator Lorelei King is why.
I forgot how great the Scarpetta series are. Had to list them again just so I can see where I left off. On that note, I can re-read these and still thoroughly enjoy them again.
Well written in subject matter and characted s …. With the exception of wanting to slap Marino! Bull headed, complex but smart! She is amazing. Always liked her and her character immensely. I hope this series continues! I am reading Red Mist right now.
I love the Scarpetta series. I hope you continue to write many more. Thank you for all the truth you put in your series. I was recently turned on to Conwell novels as a result of her being mentioned by the Jefferson Bass writing team.. Within a month I had read 13 of them. Absolutely riveting. I however was unfornate enough to not have read them in order. Please help!! So I settled for Book of The Dead for now…. After Blow Fly is Trace. The list of the Kay Scarpetta books in order is at the top of this page.
The Kay Scarpetta series relies heavily on forensic techniques and terminology in order for the protagonist to solve the case, along with traditional detective work. The first book in the Dr Kay Scarpetta series of books is Postmortem, which was published in Postmortem introduces us to the character of Dr Kay Scarpetta as she is asked to attend the scene of a strangling. The victim is a woman, but the more worrying fact is that the murder is just the latest in the string of killings which are yet to be solved.
Kay Scarpetta must also try and juggle the case with the arrival of her young niece, Lucy, another recurring character in the series, as well as a problematic relationship with an attorney who also works for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Following the great success of Postmortem, the second book in the Dr Kay Scarpetta series, Body of Evidence was published in This time around, Dr Kay Scarpetta must work with the police in the violent murder of the romantic fiction author Beryl Madison, who was stabbed to death.
However, Beryl Madison is not the only victim, and soon Dr Kay Scarpetta finds herself in the cross-hairs of the serial killer. She must try and solve the case while keeping herself alive, and also dealing with the emergence of a former lover who vanished from her life many years previously. Unnatural Exposure and Point of Origin followed in and Black Notice, which was published in , marked a milestone in the Dr Kay Scarpetta series, as it was the tenth book to be published in the series.
But there would still be many more to followed in the series, with The Last Precinct following Black Notice in
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