Kay Scarpetta · Book 19
Red Mist
- Published
- 1 January 2011
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN-13
- 9780751543971
- Type
- novel
About this book
Red Mist, published in 2011 at 512 pages, is a novel by Patricia Cornwell. It is entry #19 in Kay Scarpetta. Port Mortuary comes before it, The Bone Bed after.
Its place in Kay Scarpetta
Red Mist is book 19 in the Kay Scarpetta series. It follows Port Mortuary. It is followed by The Bone Bed. See the full Kay Scarpetta reading order.
Kay Scarpetta is the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia (and, later, a federal forensic investigator and private consultant) whose autopsy table is where every case really begins. Patricia Cornwell's series is credited with popularising the modern forensic-procedural: DNA evidence, trace analysis and autopsy detail that were startlingly technical for genre fiction in 1990 and remain a core selling point today. Scarpetta investigates alongside her homicide-detective niece-in-all-but-name-later-partner Pete Marino…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780748118939
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751543971