Patricia Cornwell

Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of a reclusive author and discovers that forensic pathology is more than laboratory work when she becomes involved in a dangerous criminal investigation.

A Scarpetta Novel

Body of Evidence

Barbara Williford

When a local young author turns up brutally murdered, Kay is baffled. When 3 more people associated with the author also end up dead, she steps away from the coroner’s office and sets off to investigate deeper into the lives of the dead and their connection to each other. Her life is put on the line when the murderer turns on her. Add to all this mayhem, an ex suddenly appears out of no where and is right in the middle of it all.

**Trigger warnings: strong language, graphic scenes, homophobe language and a weird obsession with cigarettes.

Amazingly written thriller which I wasn‘t able to put down. Found it to be quite heavy though :/

Lili

When a local young author turns up brutally murdered, Kay is baffled.  When 3 more people associated with the author also end up dead, she steps away from the coroner’s office and sets off to investigate deeper into the lives of the dead and their connection to each other.  Her life is put on the line when the murderer turns on her.  Add to all this mayhem, an ex suddenly appears out of no where and is right in the middle of it all.

**Trigger warnings:  strong language, graphic scenes, homophobe language and a weird obsession with cigarettes.

When a local young author turns up brutally murdered, Kay is baffled.  When 3 more people associated with the author also end up dead, she steps away from the coroner’s office and sets off to investigate deeper into the lives of the dead and their connection to each other.  Her life is put on the line when the murderer turns on her.  Add to all this mayhem, an ex suddenly appears out of no where and is right in the middle of it all.

**Trigger warnings:  strong language, graphic scenes, homophobe language and a weird obsession with cigarettes.

Mary Baldwin

The second volume in my end to end reading of the Kay Scarpetta series, and this is another I'd already read. I found the plot of this book much tricker to get engrossed in to begin with, but the last third of the story really got back on form and I enjoyed it. I think perhaps the appeal for me with these books is in the forensic pathology rather than the crime drama plot - who knows, either way there's no denying they are exceptionally readable without being simplistic. Self contained stories with characters who connect and develop across the series, a nice combination. 

A serial killer with an unusually linked motive. But it works well.

Oggetti di reato

Laura Carminati

Too many details but better t'han the first. If only Kay could drop the cigarettes!!! That's disgusting.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell’s suspense fiction classic, featuring gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. 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. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic evidence—while unwittingly edging closer to a killer waiting in the shadows.

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Patricia Daniels Cornwell

A reclusive writer is dead. And her final manuscript has disappeared ... Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West - but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in ... Thus begins for Dr Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre. Why would Beryl open the door to someone who brutally slashed and then nearly decapitated her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with a prize-winning author and the disappearance of her own manuscript. As Scarpetta retraces Beryl's footsteps, an investigation that begins in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads her deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own. For more about Patricia Cornwell and her books visit her website at www.patricia-cornwell.com

Body of Evidence A Scarpetta Novel

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