Patricia Cornwell

The Scarpetta Factor
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316733175
RRP: $34.99
QBD: $8.99

It is the week before Christmas. 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. 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 p...

Red Mist
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781408702321
RRP: $39.99
QBD: $29.99

The new Kay Scarpetta from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer. Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family years ago, a young woman on death ro...

Red Mist
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ISBN: 9781408703687
RRP: $32.99

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Port Mortuary
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751543926
RRP: $19.99

Told for the first time in many years from the perspective of Kay Scarpetta herself and unveiling secrets from her past that have never been revealed this is the latest thrilling Kay Scarpetta novel. Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not t...

Port Mortuary
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781408703076
RRP: $32.99

The latest blockbuster in the bestselling Kay Scarpetta series. Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice. A young man drops dead, apparently from a heart condition, eerily...

Cause of Death
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751544688
RRP: $19.99

An investigative reporter is found dead in Virginia's icy waters ...New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year takes Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. A diver, Ted Eddings, is dead, an investigative reporter who was a favourite at the Medical Examiner's office. Was Eddings probing the frigid depths of the Inactive Shipyar...

The Body Farm
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751544589
RRP: $19.99

The Body Farm - a research institute that tests the decomposition of corpses. Black Mountain, North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year, if they're unlucky, and where people are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night. But violent death is no respecter of venue, and the discovery of the corpse of the corpse of an 11-year-ol...

Scarpetta Factor
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751538762
RRP: $19.99

It is the week before Christmas. 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. 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 presu...

All That Remains
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ISBN: 9780751544480
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Black Notice
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ISBN: 9780751544831
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Blow Fly
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ISBN: 9780751544930
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Body of Evidence
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ISBN: 9780751544435
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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 ...

Book of the Dead
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ISBN: 9780751534054
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Cruel and Unusual
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ISBN: 9780751544534
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From Potter's Field
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ISBN: 9780751544633
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Last Precinct
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ISBN: 9780751544886
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Point of Origin
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ISBN: 9780751544787
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Predator
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ISBN: 9780751544145
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Scarpetta
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ISBN: 9780751538755
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Trace
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751544985
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Unnatural Exposure
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ISBN: 9780751544732
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Postmortem (Platinum Edition)
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751544398
RRP: $19.99

The first Dr Kay Scarpetta Mystery, which won five international awards when it was first published. A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedroom. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random but always early on Saturday mornings.So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical officer, is awakened at 2.33 am, ...

Scarpetta
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316733151
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Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk - and the story he has to tell turns out to be ...

Front
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ISBN: 9780751539653
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Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate the death of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Assumed to be a victim of the Boston Strangler, blind Janie Brolin was raped and left for dead in 1962. With no DNA and sketchy police records, this is a case that will test Garano to his limits. It will ta...

At Risk
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751538717
RRP: $19.99

The first in a new series from the acclaimed creator of the Kay Scarpetta series. Moving between the chill of Cambridge, Massachusetts and the sultry humidity of Knoxville, Tennessee, Winston Garano, a police investigator, is instructed to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. Although Win reckons there are many more pressing current cases which should have higher priority, he gets on with th...

Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper Case Closed
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751533590
RRP: $19.99

Between August and November 1888 five women were murdered in Whitechapel. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear for months in the East End, and gave rise to the sobriquet which was to become shorthand for a serial killer - Jack the Ripper. For over a hundred years the identity of the killer has remained one of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries. Until now. Using her f...

A Scarpetta Omnibus
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316848725

This dazzling volume contains the first three Dr Kay Scarpetta novels 'Postmortem' Introducing Dr Kay Scarpetta. A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedrooms. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner, i...

All That Remains
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751501100

When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodland areas, Dr Kay Scarpetta's task as Chief Medical Examiner is made more difficult by the effects of the elements. Eight times she must write that the cause of death is undetermined. But when the latest girl to go missing turns out to be the daughter of one of the most powerful women in America, Kay finds herself prey...

At Risk
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316732970

A 'one-off' from the best-selling creator of the Dr Kay Scarpetta series, based on the serialisation in the New York Times. Moving between the chill of Cambridge, Massachusetts and the sultry humidity of Knoxville, Tennessee, Winston Garano, a police investigator, is instructed to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. Although Win reckons there are many more pressing current cases whic...

Black Notice
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316646376

After the appalling death of Benton Wesley at the hands of Carrie Grethen. Kay Scarpetta, Lucy and Pete Marino are trying to live up to the old adage that "life goes on". They all think they are coping, but grief isn't so easily assuaged. A distraction for Scarpetta and Marino is the discovery of a body in a cargo ship recently arrived from Belgium at Virginia's Deep Water Termi...

Black Notice
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316646383

While Lucy Farinelli goes undercover in Miami to bring down a notorious criminal cartel, Dr Kay Scarpetta and Pete Marino discover a body in a cargo ship recently arrived from Belgium at Virginia's Deep Water Terminal in Richmond. Initially it seems as though it may be the decomposed remains of a stowaway, but Scarpetta's post mortem reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification....

Blow Fly
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316854740

Fearing that she is about to be fired by the governor, hounded in the media and in the courtroom, Kay Scarpetta leaves Virginia for what she believes will turn out to be the warmth and solace of the Florida sun. However, Scarpetta is soon deep into a case that has left colleagues in Louisiana profoundly disturbed. A woman is found dead in a seedy hotel, dressed to go out, keys in her hand. Her hi...

Blow Fly
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316854757

Dr Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in quest of peace but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida, where she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life....

Body of Evidence
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751505122

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...

Book Of The Dead
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316724258

The latest in the bestselling series featuring fiction's original pathologist, Dr Kay Scarpetta. The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time to move to the historic city of Charleston...

Cause of Death
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751519174

New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year takes Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth Rivers icy surface. A diver, Ted Eddings, is dead, an investigative reporter who was a favourite at the Medical Examiner's office. Was Eddings probing the frigid depths of the Inactive Shipyard for a story or simply diving for sunken trinkets? And why did Scarpetta rec...

Cruel & Unusual
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751501681

At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue, Dr Kay Scarpetta has the strange task of preparing to perform a post mortem before the subject is dead. But Waddell's is not the only newsworthy event on this freezing night: the grotesquely wounded body of a young boy is found propped against a ru...

From Potter's Field
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751516302

Calling on all her reserves of courage and skill, and the able assistance of colleagues Marino and Wesley, Scarpetta must track her murderer nemesis Temple Brooks Gault, in pursuit of survival as well as justice - heading inexorably to an electrifying climax amid the dark, menacing labyrinths of the New York subway....

Isle Of Dogs
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316858595

Gripping plot, great characters, ironic humour . . . Newly installed superintendent of the Virginia State Police, Judy Hammer, and her right hand and confidant, Andy Brazil, are at their wits' end trying to protect the public from the politicians - and vice versa. And amid the mayhem an island off the coast of Virginia declares UDI - claiming its independence lies in the history of America&#...

Life's Little Fables
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780399233166

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Point Of Origin
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316644396

Carrie Grethen, partner in crime to William Temple Gault, has escaped from prison. Before she does so she sends Kay Scarpetta a message which makes it all too clear that she blames her (and Lucy, and Benton Wesley, and Pete Marino) for Gault's death, and has specific - if cryptic - plans for revenge. Wary and quite shaken, Scarpetta still has a professional life to get on with, including inves...

Point of Origin
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316644402

Carrie Grethen, partner in crime to William Temple Gault, has escaped from prison. Before she does so she sends Kay Scarpetta a message which makes it all too clear that she blames her (and Lucy, and Benton Wesley, and Pete Marino) for Gault's death, and has specific - if cryptic - plans for revenge. Wary and quite shaken, Scarpetta still has a professional life to get on with, including inves...

Point of Origin
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751523225

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Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper: Case Closed
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316725088

Between August and November 1888 five women were murdered in Whitechapel. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear in the East End for months, and gave rise to the sobriquet which was to become shorthand for a serial killer - Jack the Ripper. For over a hundred years the identity of the killer has remained one of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries, and a wealth of theori...

Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper: Case Closed
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316861595

Between August and November 1888 five women were murdered in Whitechapel. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear in the East End for months, and gave rise to the sobriquet which was to become shorthand for a serial killer - Jack the Ripper. For over a hundred years the identity of the killer has remained one of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries, and a wealth of theori...

Postmortem
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751504941

Introducing Dr Kay Scarpetta. A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedrooms. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner, is awakened at 2.33 am, she knows the news is bad: there is a fourth victim. And she fears no...

Predator
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316724210

The New Scarpetta Novel. Now a Director of the National Forensic Academy, Dr Kay Scarpetta is able to use her formidable skills on myriad investigations. But someone is aware of her every move, manipulating her towards a situation where she would become the prey. ...

Predator
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316724241

Benton Wesley is working on a secret project involving convicted killers, one of whom appears to confess to an even higher number of murders than the authorities had known about. It is a project that gives Scarpetta deep disquiet, as does the behaviour of her niece Lucy, who is spending too much time drinking and indulging in casual pick-ups in cheap bars. The Academy is called in to assist in th...

Ruth: A Portrait
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780340721520

The Story of Ruth Bell Graham Patricia Cornwell, the best-selling crime novelist, has been a friend of the Grahams since childhood, and presents a warm, revealing portrait of Ruth Bell Graham, her life and her time, taking the reader into the heart of Ruth and Billy Graham's family. As wife of the world's most famous evangelist, it was Ruth who influenced Billy most, as his trusted confi...

Scarpetta
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751542127

Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk - and the story he has to tell turns out to be ...

Scarpetta 01: Postmortem
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751530438

A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedrooms. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical officer, is awakened at 2.33 am, she knows the news is bad: there is a fourth victim. And she fears now for those that will follow unles...

Scarpetta 15: Book Of The Dead
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316724234

The latest in the bestselling series featuring fiction's original pathologist, Dr Kay Scarpetta. The book of the dead' is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time to move to the historic city of Charleston, So...

Scarpetta 16: Scarpetta
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316733144

Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk - and the story he has to tell turns out to be ...

Scarpetta Factor
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316733168

It is the week before Christmas. 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. 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 p...

Southern Cross
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316846790

In her best-selling novel Hornet's Nest, Patricia Cornwell displayed her intuitive understanding of policemen and women and introduced her readers to Judy Hammer, Virginia West and Andy Brazil. In this fast-moving sequel she again portrays this trio - sometimes passionate, vulnerable or heroic, always professional. This time the setting is Richmond, Virginia, and Patricia Cornwell takes us eve...

Southern Cross
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316846813

In her best-selling novel Hornet's Nest, Patricia Cornwell displayed her intuitive understanding of policemen and women and introduced her readers to Judy Hammer, Virginia West and Andy Brazil. In this fast-moving sequel she again portrays this trio - sometimes passionate, vulnerable or heroic, always professional. This time the setting is Richmond, Virginia, and Patricia Cornwell takes us eve...

The Body Farm
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751512212

Black Mountain, North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year, if they're unlucky, and where people are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night. But violent death is no respecter of venue, and the discovery of the corpse of an 11-year-old girl sends shock waves through the community. Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner on ...

The Last Precinct
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316646246

When Chief Medical Examiner, Dr Kay Scarpetta is sent to investigate the 400 year-old violent death of one of America's first settlers at Jamestown, Virginia, she attracts more than just the attention of the media. Soon she and her niece Lucy and Detective Pete Marino are the targets of nuisance threats that rapidly develop into vicious hate crimes clearly intended to eliminate Kay and everyo...

The Last Precinct
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316646253

When Chief Medical Examiner, Dr Kay Scarpetta is sent to investigate the 400 year-old violent death of one of America's first settlers at Jamestown, Virginia, she attracts more than just the attention of the media. Soon she and her niece Lucy and Detective Pete Marino are the targets of nuisance threats that rapidly develop into vicious hate crimes clearly intended to eliminate Kay and everyo...

The Second Scarpetta Omnibus
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316857079

Contains Cruel & Unusual, The Body Farm, From Potter's Field...

Trace
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780316854726

Five years after being sacked as Chief Medical Examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, and she is back with a vengeance. A vengeance not of her own making. Her return, as consultant pathologist in the mysterious death of a teenage girl, ruffles a few feathers - her own included. Yet Gilly Paulsson's death has stumped the best in the business. There is no obvious cause: nothin...

Trace
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780316854733

Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece, Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on a case involving the death of a fourteen-year-old girl. Accompanied by Pete Marino she finds the once familiar territory of her morgue and her department much changed, and the new Chief Medical Examiner treats her with disdain despite the obvious fa...

Unnatural Exposure
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751520385

Dr Kay Scarpetta has begun to think the state of Virginia is the most recent stop on the travels of a psychopath, but before she can properly liaise with colleagues in different states and different countries, another body is found. Like the others it is discovered on a waste site, but Scarpetta sees evidence which makes her doubt it is the work of the same killer. As she follows the forensic foot...