Kay Scarpetta · Book 16
Scarpetta
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 500
- ISBN-13
- 9780751538755
- Type
- novel
About this book
Released in 2008, Scarpetta holds the sixteenth spot in the series that bears her name, with Patricia Cornwell keeping the autopsy-table detail and the Marino-and-Lucy dynamic that has defined the books since Postmortem.
Its place in Kay Scarpetta
Scarpetta is book 16 in the Kay Scarpetta series. It follows Book of the Dead. It is followed by The Scarpetta Factor. 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 9780739496459
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751538755