Kay Scarpetta · Book 27
Unnatural Death
- Published
- 28 November 2023
- Pages
- 419
- ISBN-13
- 9781538743164
- Type
- novel
About this book
Unnatural Death is the twenty-seventh book in the Kay Scarpetta series, published in 2023 and running 419 pages, part of the higher-tech, higher-stakes direction Patricia Cornwell took the series in after its 2021 revival with Autopsy.
Its place in Kay Scarpetta
Unnatural Death is book 27 in the Kay Scarpetta series. It follows Livid. It is followed by Identity Unknown. 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 9781538757895
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781538743164