Patricia Cornwell. Thomas & Mercer, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5420-9406-1
Sabotage and family loyalty collide in this disappointing series launch from bestseller Cornwell (the Kay Scarpetta series). When Capt. Callisto “Calli” Chase, a NASA cybercrime expert, investigates a security breach and a suspicious death in the...
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author . Putnam $27.95 (387p) ISBN 978-0-399-14932-0
Jack the Ripper was renowned artist Walter Sickert (1860–1942) according to Cornwell, in case anyone hasn't yet heard. The evidence Cornwell accumulates toward that conclusion in this brilliant, personal, gripping book is very strong, and
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author Scribner Book Company $21 (304p) ISBN 978-0-684-19141-6
Cornwell, a former reporter who has worked in a medical examiner's office, sets her first mystery in Richmond, Va. Chief medical officer for the commonwealth of Virginia, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the narrator, dwells on her efforts to identify ``Mr....
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author Scribner Book Company $18.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-19240-6
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the spunky and thoughtful chief medical examiner introduced in Cornwell's first novel, Postmortem , makes her second commanding appearance here. Beryl Madison, a writer of historical romances, is grotesquely slashed to death in...
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author Scribner Book Company $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-684-19530-8
The fourth mystery to feature Virginia's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after All That Remains ) is the most intricately plotted and fully characterized novel yet in Cornwell's admirable series. From its opening at the autopsy of convicted
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Patricia Cornwell. Grand Central, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4316-4
In Cornwell’s overstuffed 28th adventure for Scarpetta (after Livid), the medical examiner joins with other recurring characters to solve a pair of brutal murders. Scarpetta and Pete Marino, her longtime associate and brother-in-law, are called to...
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Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $27.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-399-15721-9
Bestseller Cornwell's compelling 18th Kay Scarpetta novel (after The Scarpetta Factor), her strongest work in years, involves the chief medical examiner in a case that's both far-reaching in its national security implications and deeply personal....
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Patricia Cornwell. Putnam, $27.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-399-15802-5
The aftermath of the bloodshed in 2010’s Port Mortuary figures heavily in bestseller Cornwell’s solid if scattered 19th thriller featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. Lured from her home in Cambridge, Mass., to Savannah, Ga., to visit Kathleen...
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Patricia Cornwell. Putnam, $28.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-399-15757-8
At the start of bestseller Cornwell's 21st novel starring Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after 2012's The Bond Bed), Scarpetta, now the director of the Cambridge Forensic Center and chief medical examiner of Massachusetts, receives a call from Det. Pete Marino,
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Patricia Cornwell. Morrow, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-232534-1
Bestseller Cornwell’s thrilling 22nd novel featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after 2013’s Dust) pits the chief medical examiner against a threat uncomfortably close to home. On the eve of a Florida birthday trip with her FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley,
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Patricia Cornwell. Morrow, $28.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-232540-2
In bestseller Cornwell's stirring 23rd novel starring Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after 2014's Flesh and Bone), what at first appears to be an accident quickly turns to murder once Scarpetta determines that Chanel Gilbert, the grown daughter of Hollywood...
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Patricia Cornwell. Morrow, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-243668-9
In bestseller Cornwell’s uneven 24th Kay Scarpetta novel (after 2015’s Depraved Heart), the forensic pathologist investigates the bizarre death of 23-year-old Brit Elisa Vandersteelis, who was riding her bicycle in a Cambridge, Mass., park when she...
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Patricia Cornwell. Thomas & Mercer, $29.99 (570p) ISBN 978-1-5039-3687-4
In this follow-up to 2002’s Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed, Cornwell doggedly clings to her accusation that the legendary serial killer was painter Walter Sickert, though she concedes that her original case was overstated....
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Patricia Cornwell. Grand Central, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5387-2516-0
Bestseller Cornwell’s solid 26th Kay Scarpetta novel (after 2021’s Autopsy) opens with Kay, now Virginia’s chief medical examiner, testifying at a controversial murder trial, which has attracted media attention thanks to the angry and vocal friends,
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author . Putnam $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15393-8
Bestseller Cornwell's 15th novel to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after 2005's Predator
) delivers her trademark grisly crime scenes, but lacks the coherence and emotional resonance of earlier books. Soon after relocating to Charleston, S.C.,
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author . Putnam $27.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-399-15516-1
At the start of bestseller Cornwell's plodding 16th thriller to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after Book of the Dead
), the forensic pathologist—who recently relocated to Belmont, Mass., with her forensic psychologist husband—is called
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author . Putnam $27.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-399-15639-7
Bestseller Cornwell's solid 17th thriller to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after Scarpetta
) finds Scarpetta—who's the senior forensic analyst for CNN—probing the murder of a Central Park jogger as well as looking into the...
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author Scribner $27 (416p) ISBN 978-0-684-19395-3
Edgar, Anthony, Creasey and McCavity Award winner Cornwell ( Body of Evidence ) combines bone-rattling suspense with an insider's view of forensic science as her sleuth, Richmond, Va., medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, investigates a series of grim...
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author Scribner $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-19597-1
Cornwell ( Body of Evidence ; All That Remains ) casts a wider, surer narrative net in the latest case set for her increasingly complex heroine, Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia. As an FBI consultant, Scarpetta...
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author Scribner $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-684-19598-8
Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta plays a tense cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer, an old enemy, in her sixth outing (following The Body Farm), and he has her badly rattled. The story begins as a rotten Christmas for Scarpetta: Temple Gault
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author Putnam $25.95 (377p) ISBN 978-0-399-14228-4
The decision to abandon her forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta (Body of Evidence; Cause of Death; etc.) leaves Cornwell lacking more than a fail-safe series heroine. The only credible element in this novel is the urban New South setting. The story-ab
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author Putnam $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-14285-7
In this return to the luridly fascinating world of Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell delivers the goods her fans love best. Moving from serial dismemberment to a high-tech virus that threatens a pox-like epidemic, this eighth appearance (following last...
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author Putnam $25.95 (359p) ISBN 978-0-399-14465-3
It's fortunate that Cornwell has a new Kay Scarpetta thriller (Black Notice) coming out in July, because this second novel featuring southern police chief Judy Hammer is as disappointing as last year's Hornet's Nest. The problem is elementary....
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author $25.95 (415p) ISBN 978-0-399-14508-7
It's like a splash of cold water on a hot day to be plunged, after the irritating third-person satire of Cornwell's last novel, Southern Cross (1998), back into the bracing narration of medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. As in the nine Scarpettas past (
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author Putnam $22.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-399-15418-8
At the start of this weak sequel to 2006's At Risk from bestseller Cornwell, Monique Lamont, a politically ambitious D.A., uses a speech at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass., to launch an implausible anticrime initiative...
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author Putnam $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-399-15362-4
Cornwell's latest-a stand-alone thriller that was originally serialized in the New York Times Magazine-is likely to disappoint even diehard fans of her bestselling Kay Scarpetta novels (The Body Farm, etc.). This time, the action is set in Boston,...
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author Putnam $26.95 (449p) ISBN 978-0-399-14625-1
""My central nervous system spikes and surges, my pulse pounds. I am sweating.... "" If only readers would share this response with Cornwell's immensely popular Kay Scarpetta, Virginia's chief medical examiner. But most won't. Kay has plenty of...
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Patricia Cornwell. Morrow, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-311219-3
Bestseller Cornwell’s slow-moving 25th Kay Scarpetta novel (after 2016’s Chaos) finds the forensic pathologist, recently appointed the chief medical examiner of Virginia, at her headquarters in Alexandria. She’s preparing for the next meeting of the
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author, Kate Reading, Read by Penguin Audio Books $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-305826-7
It's not often a crime novel offers such a smorgasbord of oddball elements, including autopsy advice, methods of combating tree blight, the use of spiders in sadomasochist torture and couples covering the sexual and psychological waterfronts. There's
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author, Kate Reading, Read by , read by Kate Reading. Penguin Audio $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-314200-3
In Cornwell’s latest mystery thriller, the celebrated author’s At Risk team pairs up once again to tackle a loose association of police departments known as the Front. With a powerful stage presence and a voice that captivates for hours,
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author, Havner, Author Avon Books $6.99 (401p) ISBN 978-0-380-71701-9
This second commanding thriller by the Edgar Award-winning author of Postmortem and featuring forensic sleuth Dr. Kay Scarpetta was a Mystery Guild main selection as well as a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternate in cloth. $250,000 ad/pro
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author, Esther Ed. Segal, Author Putnam $25.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-399-14394-6
Cornwell fans who relish her Kay Scarpetta stories for the postmortem findings will welcome this tale of twisted minds and the gory havoc they cause. Acronym fans will also be pleased. This tale opens with the complete destruction by fire of a...
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author, McCarthy, Author Avon Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-380-71833-7
Cornwell combines bone-rattling suspense with an insider's view of forensic science as her sleuth, Richmond, Va., medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, investigates a series of grim murders of young couples. A 13-week PW bestseller, a Mystery Guild...
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author, Kicklighter, Author, Ronnie Joe Waddell, Prologue by Avon Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-380-71834-4
This fourth mystery to feature Virginia Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kay Scarpetta was a 12-week PW bestseller. (May)
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author, Patricia Corwnell, Author . Putnam $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-399-15219-1
Cornwell's latest after the disappointing Blow Fly
has indomitable medical examiner Kay Scarpetta returning to her office in Richmond five years after being fired. This homecoming will cheer fans: not only does the move put Scarpetta on her own
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author, Patricia Corwnell, Author . Putnam $26.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-399-15089-0
"Please don't go there. The past is the past," sighs New York Assistant District Attorney Jaime Berger, who herself was introduced in Cornwell's last Kay Scarpetta novel, The Last Precinct
(2000). Alas, many of Cornwell's fans...
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author, Patricia Corwnell, Author , read by Kate Burton. Putnam Berkley Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14960-3
"I knew the identity of a murderer and couldn't possibly avert my gaze," declares bestselling author and Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine chairman of the board Cornwell (The Last Precinct). Claiming to have cracked the
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author, Patricia Corwnell, Author, Conwell, Author Putnam $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14146-1
First, the good news: the omni-competent Kay Scarpetta is back, along with her sidekicks, in a murder mystery that's tighter than her last escapade, From Potter's Field. Chief medical examiner for the state of Virginia and an FBI consultant, Kay...
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author, Patricia Corwnell, Author, Marlene Brown, Author Putnam Adult $27.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-399-14799-9
How better to unwind from prodding the dead all day than to feed living, breathing friends and relatives? Bestselling mystery author Patricia Cornwell's Food to Die For: Secrets from Kay Scarpetta's Kitchen offers favorite recipes from the...
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Patricia D. Cornwell, Author, Morrisroe, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-48879-2
What is it like to be the wife of the preacher to the presidents, the peripatetic world evangelist Billy Graham? In this new version of her first book, published in 1983, popular crime novelist Patricia Cornwell, a long-time friend of the Graham...
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