Order of Kay Scarpetta Books - OrderOfBooks.com Home | Characters | Authors Order of Kay Scarpetta Books Kay Scarpetta is a character from American author Patricia Cornwell . She comprises the majority of Cornwell’s work, with Cornwell even coming out with a couple of non-fiction books based around the character. Cornwell’s Scarpetta novels are widely considered to be her best work. The Kay Scarpetta book series falls under the crime genre. Scarpetta is a perfectionist, which translates to her work as a Chief Medical Examiner and also cooking at home. Angelina Jolie is set to play the character on the silver screen. Below is a list of Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta novels in order: Publication Order of Kay Scarpetta Books Postmortem Temperance Brennan Kay Scarpetta Synopses: In Postmortem (the first of Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series), Dr. Kay Scarpetta is looking to crack the mystery of Mr. Nobody, who has been strangling young women. Scarpetta is spending all of her time trying to muster up all of the forensic clues to finding out the identity of Mr. Nobody and that will put the killer away.

Can she unravel the true identity of Mr. Nobody before he strikes again? In All That Remains (the third book in the Kay Scarpetta series), Scarpetta has been looking into the disappearance of a couple when their decomposed bodies surface. This marks the fifth pair of “couple murders” where a young couple vanishes, abandoning their car and no clues to their whereabouts. It will be months before their remains are discovered in the woods by hunters, but no cause of death can be determined. Introspective author Patricia Cornwell reflects on Kay Scarpetta, the character she created | Tampa Bay Times Introspective author Patricia Cornwell reflects on Kay Scarpetta, the character she created By Carol Blair, Times Staff Writer CAROL BLAIRTampa Bay Times I want to see more articles tagged I'm already following articles tagged Relationships, not forensic procedures, are crime writer Patricia Cornwell's passion these days, and psychology is her muse.

Related News/Archive Author deaths in 2016: Harper Lee sadly sour, Jim Harrison sweetly right 3 Weeks Ago At age 52, 20 years after she wrote the first of 16 bestselling novels about medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell is introspective about herself and the series' characters. Her last two books, Book of the Dead and Scarpetta, put her characters under a microscope, and it wasn't always pretty. "I have other things I want to say, about what inspires them, haunts them, what it feels like in a world where as you get older it changes in nanoseconds," she says. The life of this consummate storyteller is lore among her fans, and at this ripening of her protagonist, she has warmed to the subject of her own journey. In a lively phone interview from a Miami area hotel where she was "recharging her batteries,'' she talks about the power of tenacity.

Cornwell, who was turned down by six graduate schools, stresses that she is not a scientist like Scarpetta: "I'm a writer, an artist.'' Yet she has a scientific aptitude that translates esoteric and tedious concepts, she says: "That's the way my brain works." Add emotion and imagination, and a Scarpetta novel is born. Except when imagination isn't enough. Cornwell likes to experience what she writes about in what she calls her "nonfiction novels.'' "I smell it, taste it. . . . I go absorb it," she says. If she writes about a bomb squad in New York City, for example, "I want to see the gear . . . do whatever they will let me do.'' She calls the 1990s, when the popularity of her novels began to grow, a "golden era'' for enlightenment and economic stability when 10 pages of arson investigation detail would be well-received. Times are different now. "People are scared, depressed,'' she says, and they devour reality TV and minutiae.

"They want something reassuring, about relationships, not gore and procedures.'' Character study Always lively and complex, Cornwell's characters in her last two Scarpetta novels have spun into dysfunction and then eased into reconciliation in plots more psychologically traumatic than usual. Her new book, Scarpetta, picks the characters up after the dark Book of the Dead left them reeling. In earlier fiction, she moved the plot forward in a linear way, but now, in her books as in her life, analysis is more prevalent. "I analyze myself vigorously.'' And she invites analysis from others. After the rejection of her third mystery featuring detective Joe Constable (she laughs at the name now), Cornwell, a reporter turned morgue computer analyst and volunteer police officer, called Mysterious Press editor Sara Ann Freed. Freed urged her to ditch Constable for a minor character, the female medical examiner, saying: "That's who I want to spend time with.'' Cornwell incorporated the randomness and cruelty she saw in the morgue while taking notations during autopsies into Postmortem, her first Scarpetta novel. "I had to open up my protective barriers and enter that creative airspace," she says.

"Postmortem terrified people.'' The book came out in 1990. "The world was ready for this,'' she says of the details of criminal investigation, which became a "massive obsession'' in pop culture, spawning forensic shows that she watches only if they are character driven. In the beginning As a youngster, Cornwell came from a broken home in Miami to conservative Montreat, N.C., where a divorced person like her mom was a rarity. There she met her mentor, the late Ruth Bell Graham, evangelist Billy Graham's wife, who helped shape her own spirituality. "Real spirituality is humbling,'' she says. "Ruth was very much that way — open, enlightened, would invite anyone in.'' She thought her biography of Mrs. Graham would launch her as an author, so she quit her reporting job at 24 to write fiction and work in a morgue temporarily, to quench her fascination about what happens to bodies after they leave crime scenes. She was in the morgue six years. Cornwell recalls Mrs.

Graham would call up and, without saying hello, order: "Get out of the morgue.'' But Cornwell persevered there until her first novel sold: "I've never understood that I can't do what I set out to do.'' Cornwell married Dr. Staci Gruber, a neuroscientist, in 2006 in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage is legal. She would like more states to follow suit but does not want to be an activist on the issue: "It's not who I am.'' But she will speak up when asked about it, because with celebrity comes responsibility. "If you don't step forward when you represent a group of people, you're perpetuating what needs to be changed. "Life is not a morality play," she says. "We don't need to treat people different from us as someone less than us.'' Living as a lesbian gives her a unique form of empathy, she says: "I know what it feels like to be criticized, attacked and judged.'' Cornwell met Gruber in 2004 while researching what she sees as crime investigation's new frontier: the brain. "I was curious as to why do people do what they do,'' Cornwell says.

She dove into neurological studies of serial killers. "Scarpetta is at a stage in her life where she's asking, 'Why?' That brings us to neurology." Looking back, ahead Even as she plans the direction of the next Scarpetta book, her previous work ripples. Within two years, a revision is planned on Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed, her nonfiction book investigating London's Jack the Ripper serial murders that points the finger at artist Walter Sickert. Researchers and historians are helping her track down documents to clarify and respond to critics about the theories in the book. "That's the nature of nonfiction,'' she says. So far, the efforts have found "nothing that refutes my basic theory.'' The project has been in her life since 2001: "That's being a journalist. You don't know until you quit looking.'' Her novellas At Risk and The Front, featuring a newer character, state police investigator Win Garano, are to air as Lifetime movies in the fall, she says. And then there's the big screen. "There has been chatter about Scarpetta and Hollywood since 1990,'' Cornwell says.

But every effort stalled: "It's bizarre." She even lived in Los Angeles for a while, but deadlines passed and the screenplays weren't what studios wanted, she says. "It will happen when it's supposed to happen. It may be after I'm gone. . . . When a literary character has an existence without you, it's going to happen.'' Her next novel will be The Scarpetta Factor. In it, Scarpetta, already an analyst for CNN, is asked to do her own show but is reluctant. Police seeking her help say that when they're stumped, they need "the Scarpetta factor," but that is a cliche to the horrified forensic pathologist. Cornwell used the doctor's name in the title again to focus on character and offer another departure from earlier gruesome titles like Book of the Dead and All That Remains. "I don't want titles that depress people, that won't get sold in a hospital gift shop,'' Cornwell says. And she wants to tip her hat, one more time, to Scarpetta. Carol Blair can be reached at blair@sptimes.com or (727) 892-2389.

Scarpetta The monster Patricia Cornwell created - CNN.com The monster Patricia Cornwell created Story Highlights Patricia Cornwell releases 16th book about Kay Scarpetta called "Scarpetta" Scarpetta leaves South Carolina for new case in New York Cornwell enjoys exploring her characters' minds and criminal psychology Author still spends time researching forensic science By Jacque Wilson CNN ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- When Patricia Cornwell began writing thriller novels, she ruled the world of forensic science. "I'm very interested in what motivates people, why they do what they do, how they do it," Patricia Cornwell said. "I could treat readers in each book to some new aspect that they wouldn't be familiar with," Cornwell said. Now the author is bombarded with "CSI"-like information from every side -- from "Bones" to "Forensic Files" to, well, "CSI." "It's like you create this monster and find out it's living in the house with you, and it's banished you to a room because it has more power than you," she said. Cornwell knew she had to adapt to the changing entertainment climate.

"One of the questions I really did ask myself was, 'What's the one thing I have no one else does?' " The answer was chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell's heroine. Scarpetta is independent, feisty and someone Cornwell knows better than she knows herself. To honor that close relationship, Cornwell decided to name her 16th book in the series after its main character, titling it simply "Scarpetta." "I realized, here it is 2008. I finished my first book 20 years ago in 1988. This is a really big anniversary," Cornwell said. In the novel, Scarpetta leaves South Carolina for New York, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured psychiatric patient. The patient has a graphic tale to tell -- one of paranoia and murder. The novelist said her books all have two things in common: First, of course, is a plot twist that allows Scarpetta to make a Sherlock Holmes-like deduction. The second is intriguing character interaction. "What's going on with them in this book? What are they doing with or to each other? Who's in love? Who isn't? Who's on the outs with whom?

Because I hope, in the end, [my books] are like high-level, crime soap operas." With two decades of character history, Cornwell has a lot to work with in that area. But her books are also full of intellectual fodder. Scarpetta is a disciplined academic -- a scientist with a law degree. Cornwell spent six years working in a medical examiner's office before writing her first book, and she continues to spend time with professionals to keep up on new forensic technology. In recent weeks she has researched an autopsy in Florida and worked with the National Forensic Academy. If she's going to write about trace evidence, she believes, she's going to go to a trace evidence lab. "I was never a scientific person," Cornwell said. "When I got interested in science I had to learn it after the fact... and that was good because I had already learned how to describe things, how to ask questions the audience would want answered. I was much better able to translate things into a language someone else could grasp." Her dedication to understanding her subject translates into other areas as well. Cornwell became a helicopter pilot, a certified scuba diver and qualified for a motorcycle license, all because she was writing about characters who were doing those things.

Fans appreciate Cornwell's enthusiasm and writing style, pushing 12 of her novels onto USA Today's best-seller lists. But Cornwell said "Scarpetta" is actually more uplifting than her last couple of books, which took on a more twisted aura. "I'm glad because I think we live in very dark times and no one wants to read a depressing book now." Still, Cornwell has been delving deeper into her characters' minds with each new book, and "Scarpetta" won't alter that trend. "I'm very interested in what motivates people, why they do what they do, how they do it," she said. "It probably has something to do with where I am in life. I'm 52 years old and I think differently than I did at 42." Fans have asked if this is Cornwell's last book in the series -- noting that the title "Scarpetta" is very ominous-sounding. But she promises to keep writing as long as the characters let her. "It's certainly not by intention to be the last book," she said. "I wanted to make this a very special book. I decided that early in the writing process.

I wanted to make it longer, a richer book, a feast for the fans. So no, this isn't the last book about Scarpetta." Which sounds, well, ominous. Kay Scarpetta, watch out. Patricia Cornwell on writing and her character Kay Scarpetta - BBC News BBC News Media playback is unsupported on your device Patricia Cornwell on writing and her character Kay Scarpetta 20 November 2014 Last updated at 19:25 GMT Patricia Cornwell is a pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thrillers, and perhaps best known for her series following medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. She published her first novel in the series while working as a computer analyst for a Chief Medical Officer in 1990. Twenty four years later Cornwell is about to publish her 22nd of the series, Flesh and Blood, having sold some 100 million copies in 36 languages worldwide. She spoke to the BBC about her approach to writing, and a planned film featuring her most famous character.

Book List - Patricia Cornwell Patricia Cornwell Book List Body of Evidence (1991) ISBN 0-684-19240-3 All That Remains (1992) ISBN 0-684-19395-7 Cruel and Unusual (1993) ISBN 0-684-19530-5 The Body Farm (1994) ISBN 0-684-19597-6 From Potter’s Field (1995) ISBN 0-684-19598-4 Cause of Death (1996) ISBN 0-399-14146-4 Unnatural Exposure (1997) ISBN 0-399-14285-1 Point of Origin (1998) ISBN 0-399-14394-7 Black Notice (1999) ISBN 0-399-14508-7 The Last Precinct (2000) ISBN 0-399-14625-3 Blow

 Fly (2003) ISBN 0-399-15089-7 Trace (2004) ISBN 0-399-15219-9 Book of the Dead (2007) ISBN 0-399-15393-4 Scarpetta (2008) ISBN 0-316-73314-8 The Scarpetta Factor (2009) ISBN 0-399-15639-9 Port Mortuary (2010) ISBN 0-399-15721-2 Red Mist (2011) ISBN 0-399-15802-5 The Bone Bed (2012) ISBN 0-425-26136-0 Dust (2013) ISBN 0-399-15757-3 Flesh And Blood (2014) ISBN 978-0062325341 Depraved Heart (2015) ISBN 978-006

2325402 Chaos (2016) ISBN 978-0062436689 Hornet’s Nest (1997) ISBN 0-399-14228-2 Southern Cross (1999) ISBN 0-399-14465-X Isle of Dogs (2001) ISBN 0-399-14739-X At Risk / Win Garano series: At Risk (2006) ISBN 0-399-15362-4 The Front (2008) ISBN 0-399-15418-3 Life’s Little Fable (1999; children’s book) ISBN 0-399-23316-4 Non-fiction A Time for Remembering (1983; biography of Ruth Bell Graham; later reissued as Ruth: A Portrait) ISBN 0-06-061685-7 Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham, Doubleday, 1997.

ISBN 978-0385-48900-3 Scarpetta’s Winter Table (1998) ISBN 0941711420 Food to Die For: Secrets from Kay Scarpetta’s Kitchen (2002) ISBN 0-399-14799-3 Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed (2002) ISBN 0-399-14932-5 The Secret Life of Walter Sickert (2016) ISBN 978-1503936874 The First Scarpetta Collection.

Postmortem and Body of Evidence (1995) ISBN 0-316-91125-9 A Scarpetta Omnibus: Postmortem, Body of Evidence, All that Remains (2000) A Second Scarpetta Omnibus: Cruel and Unusual, The Body Farm, From Potter’s Field (2000) A Third Scarpetta Omnibus: Cause of Death, Unnatural Exposure & Point of Origin (2002) ISBN 0-316-72472-6 The Scarpetta Collection Volume 1: Postmortem and Body of Evidence (2003) ISBN 0-7432-5580-1 The Scarpetta Collection Volume 2: All that Remains and Cruel and Unusual (2003) 81 thoughts on “Book List” Paulette Stripland February 2, 2012 at 5:16 am As an avid fan of all Patricia Cornwell’s books, I eagerly await each release. Just finished Red Mist and must say “Bravo”!

Absolutely facinating, the type of read you cannot put down. Thank you Patricia Cornwell for being so creative and entertaining! Your books always challenge readers and take so many suprising twist and turns they are always captivating! March 14, 2012 at 8:12 pm I just discovered Dr Scarpetta not long ago but I’m already on book 4. I love this series. a rare gem to find a strong female character in a medical novel. I’m going to savor each one of these books! Thanks Patricia for a great read, and keep writing! April 22, 2012 at 9:36 pm We bought this set for our 5-year-old son after avihng checked it out of the library a kazillion times. The author who reads the stories has a wonderful story-telling voice. My son listens to them over and over and over again. Great stories to read, and a wonderful CD set to listen to.

April 8, 2012 at 1:47 pm I love The Scarpetta series, but I am finding that I really liked her earlier books, not only with the building of the characters as well as a different chilling story line in each book yet still keeping the integrity of the characters. I am currently reading Scarpetta Factor and the re-emergence of the Chandonne family in this book is taking the book backwards. Patricia is such a talented writer, and as seen in her earlier writings of this series and in her Andy Brazil series that she is so very talented that I question the bringing back old characters. April 14, 2012 at 1:35 pm I was an avid fan of the Scarpetta series. But at some point it seems the writing style changed to writing in present tense. From that point on, I had a lot of trouble reading them. Must be my temporally impaired brain. I still love the stories, but wish there were past tense versions of the newer books available. April 19, 2012 at 12:00 am Just decovered Patricia Cornwell.

I started on the 17th book of the Scarpetta series. Did’nt know any thing about her till a friend told me about the series so i stopped reading the 17th book and started with the first one and i just love them. I’m on book eight now. Keep up the good work Patricia April 22, 2012 at 10:52 pm I have read most, but not all, of the Scarpetta novels that come along. I have missed a few of them. I look forward to reading them when I have them in hand. I do get confused at times and will start a book only to find that I have already read it. If it has been a while I will reread it. I am amazed that you can be so prolific and still have some kind of a “normal life” while doing these novels. I say thank you for all of your hard work even though to some it might seem easy to do. I just wish that I had your talent! May 2, 2012 at 9:58 am I “discovered” my first Patricia Cornwell book 3 years ago. Since then, I cant stop reading.

I already have 7 books up to date and think she is an amazing writer and person. Are there any movies or TV series of her books? Thanks Patircia, by reading your books you bring some exitement and light into my life. Never stop writing! Unika February 2, 2016 at 7:36 am NO NO NO do not make her books into TV or DVD or onto any visual format: it will never be a true representation of the stories. Keep your imagination of how the characters look and behave. Have your own imagination of how her house looks like etc. Don’t ruin your imaginations by making movies and TV shows May 22, 2012 at 8:54 am i love the Patricia Cornwell books . i love the scarpetta novels i have the whole collection have read them all 2 times and lovr them can’t wait to read her next book the bone bed. she is an awsome writer. June 15, 2012 at 11:52 pm it was not absolutely necassery to read them In order . (Note Postmortem is the first in the series ) Our antagonist is Dr.

Kay Scarpetta, who is the chief Medical examiner for Virginia. She is also a lawyer and a consultant for the FBI. This story, that centers around the murder of a young girl leads us in many directions, and gives us the chance to follow many leads. The book is littered with all sorts of fascinating behind the scenes forensic activity. So if your into that sort of thing, such as analyzing photos, evidence samples, and the study of the time of death you’ll enjoy a lot of the detail that goes into the development of the investigation. This book also enables to experience many of Dr. Scarpetta’s relationships. We are able to see her interact with her niece Lucy, an FBI intern , Benton Wesley a FBI collegue and romantic interest, and Pete Marino a detective from Virginia. These are all charcters that appear to be present in many of her stories. With out giving too much a way, the story uunfolds rather similarly to an onion, the way you would peel back layer upon layer to discover well in this case who done it .

The story does not drag at all, even with all the technical mumbo jumbo which was even easy for a lay-man to understand, and is filled with lot’s of page turning suspense.

Let me say, I enjoyed it so much so that I immediately picked up Unnatural Exposure and plowed through that one too.Help other customers find the most helpful reviewsa0Was this review helpful to you?a0 | a0 Leave a Comment to Name(required)Mail (will not be published)(required)Website Posted by on Jun 1, 2012Posted by on May 28, 2012Posted by on May 24, 2012 Posted by on Oct 16, 2010Posted by on Oct 17, 2010Posted by on Oct 18, 2010 Posted by on Oct 19, 2010Posted by on Feb 16, 2012Posted by on Feb 9, 2012 Advertisement Link To Books:Tag(s) To Choose From: June 16, 2012 at 6:21 am it was not absolutely nesecsary to read them In order . (Note Postmortem is the first in the series ) Our antagonist is Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who is the chief Medical examiner for Virginia.

She is also a lawyer and a consultant for the FBI. This story, that centers around the murder of a young girl leads us in many directions, and gives us the chance to follow many leads. The book is littered with all sorts of fascinating behind the scenes forensic activity. So if your into that sort of thing, such as analyzing photos, evidence samples, and the study of the time of death you’ll enjoy a lot of the detail that goes into the development of the investigation. This book also enables to experience many of Dr. Scarpetta’s relationships. We are able to see her interact with her niece Lucy, an FBI intern , Benton Wesley a FBI collegue and romantic interest, and Pete Marino a detective from Virginia. These are all charcters that appear to be present in many of her stories. With out giving too much a way, the story uunfolds rather similarly to an onion, the way you would peel back layer upon layer to discover well in this case who done it . The story does not drag at all, even with all the technical mumbo jumbo which was even easy for a lay-man to understand, and is filled with lot’s of page turning suspense.

Let me say, I enjoyed it so much so that I immediately picked up Unnatural Exposure and plowed through that one too.Help other customers find the most helpful reviewsa0Was this review helpful to you?a0 | a0 Leave a Comment to Name(required)Mail (will not be published)(required)Website There is something about this lady just everytime she gets down on the bussness. Her hand is very enouph to narate the reality of deep dirty stufs that left even her own mind into usual fear of seing the nextday,simply caz of what is she ready and cappable in telling it.she is very well dedicated to this type of art. I fell in love with what she does the first day I set an eye into her “postmortem” ten very first paragraph of that book I said this”where were u all these days” . Eversince I successfuly went other two of her own though not in series but I played Each scene I readed mindly.can’t beleave I’m in thirdword cuntry but I got a chance to find her copies into ponlocalshop just laid on ground on the city called Arusha in Tanzania.

I bought “the body of evidence”for 35$,the portmortem for 23$ and of cause bought “the portmutor” a while ago when I travelled to Swaziland for 12$.all look old and used but I could never let go. The funything is,each novelfriend step into my collection must borrow her book first.they are all taken But I find a way to find such copies back. August 20, 2015 at 5:07 pm 0h I Ms Reading Ur Books, I”ve Read Almost All, Unfortunately Here Books Are Not Sold. Sn I Rely On Online Short Reviews, Pls If There Are Any Book Donors Out There I Dnt Mind, Your Books Helped Me Alot When I Lost My Parents And Fiance In 2002 And I Needed A Companion Nd Doctor Recommended Readng, I Come Frm A Family That Loves Books .

My Mum Started Us Frm Newspapers To James Hardly Chanse Etc, My Last Read Was Jack The Reaper, So What Have I Msd, Thanx 4 Making Days Bearable, Patricia Cornwell Books In Order About Patricia Cornwell Books In Order Reading the Patricia Cornwell books in order really depends on which series you’re looking at – or whether it’s a series you want to read or her standalone novels, in the first place. Not many people know, but the author of the popular Kay Scarpetta series has also written a couple of non-fiction books, among them being also two foodied books as well – and they’re great too! Of course when we mentioned Patricia Cornwell, we mostly think of the famous Scarpetta series, featuring the Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, working in Massachusetts. The author’s very first novel, Postmortem, published in 1990, is, I think, also her most popular book as well. It is really the book that started a new trend with CSI style novels – forensic anthropology mystery books – that would take the fiction genre by storm.

It might be less known the fact that the author also created two additional crime series focusing on Andy Brazil, a young journalist turned cop in Virginia, as well as her other series with center stage taken by Win Garano in Boston. Patricial Cornwell ( website ) was born in Miami and grew up in Montreat, North Carolina. She attended the Davidson College where she earned her English degree in 1979. Her first job was with the Charlotte Observer where she did various jobs, starting from listing TV programs to covering the police beat. Some of the article she wrote on prostitution and crime in the downtown Charlotte area brought her a lot of attention, praise and respect. After leaving her job as a journalist behind, she started working with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia. This is the very job that her fictional character, Kay Scarpetta would do as well. Her first novel, Postmortem was written during this time, and while initially it was not successfully received, it was eventually published and it became the first in her popular crime series. The author is living in Boston where she is working on her next book.

Patricia Cornwell’s latest book is part of the Kay Scarpetta series, called Chaos, published in 2016. It is the 24th book in the Kay Scarpetta series. Here is the list of the Patricial Cornwell books in order with the series sorted by chronological order with the book numbers within each series in brackets. Kay Scarpetta Books In Order 1. Postmortem , 1990 (Kay Scarpetta #1) News - Patricia Cornwell Patricia Cornwell NEWS My return to Richmond: Scarpetta 25 will return her to Richmond. 12/24/2016 PATRICIA CORNWELL – CHAOS: A Scarpetta Novel 12/06/2016 Book: CHAOS: A Scarpetta Novel Publishing: William Morrow (November 15, 2016) Listen Patricia Cornwell talks to Ben 12/04/2016 International best-selling author Patricia Cornwell talks to Ben McGrail about her career as her latest book, Chaos, is released in the UK.

More Relative Values: crime writer Patricia Cornwell and her spouse 11/28/2016 I met Staci in 2004 when I was visiting a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts. I was doing research for my latest novel and she ran a neuroimaging laboratory. The minute she walked into the room, the air shifted. I wasn’t looking for anyone. My life was right where I wanted it in Florida. All of […] ‘Carol’ Screenwriter Phyllis Nagy to Write Patricia Cornwell Kay Scarpetta Film (Exclusive) 11/28/2016 The character has appeared in two dozen best-selling books, most recently this year’s ‘Chaos.’ More Patricia Cornwell – Scarpetta, helicopters, internet trolls and same-sex marriage 11/27/2016 Into a shadowy underworld….a creaking door opens to the morgue…. our weapons are drawn, we approach the shape behind the curtains. More ‘Chaos’ 11/25/2016 “Chaos” by Patricia Cornwell has a “chaotic” plot. This book fascinatingly shows how people are losing control.

In some ways technology has made lives easier, while in other ways it has taken away someone’s independence. Cornwell shows in this absorbing thriller how that can happen. More Bestseller Patricia Cornwell’s Chaos theory on life as she admits she’d rather have a helicopter than a diamond ring 11/23/2016 MUCH-loved character Kay Scarpetta returns for a 24th instalment and her creator, author Patricia Cornwell talks about her own life dramas and why she was happy to ignore her 60th birthday. More Is Scarpetta heading where no medical examiner has gone before? 11/21/2016 Will Kay Scarpetta one day be the first medical examiner to investigate a death in space? The premise isn’t as out of this world as you might think. More Read more here: #storylink=cpy In The Author’s Voice: Patricia Cornwell 11/16/2016 Fans of New York Times Best Selling Author Patricia Cornwell have, undoubtedly, been anxiously awaiting today’s (November 15, 2016) release of her latest Kay Scarpetta novel, Chaos.

It’s been nearly three decades since Post Mortem launched the character that has become part of the forensic literary landscape. More Q&A with Dallas News 11/15/2016 When Patricia Cornwell’s first forensic thriller, Postmortem, was published in 1990, she had the genre pretty much to herself. More Come see me in Dallas on 11/17 11/14/2016 at Dallas Museum of Art discussing Chaos, Scarpetta and more!

Leicester, an inspiration Patricia Cornwell reveals how Leicester inspired her best-selling crime novels more Women In The World 11/04/2016 I will be a guest at Women In The World with Tina Brown on 11/14/16 Signed editions of CHAOS available for pre-order 08/30/2016 Signed editions of Chaos are available from these locations Porter Square Books (will ship worldwide): Barnes And Noble: Exclusive: Patricia Cornwell Shares an Excerpt and the Never-Before-Seen Cover of Chaos 08/09/2016 Fans of bestselling true crime author Patricia Cornwell are on the edge of their favorite reading chair waiting for the next book in her series featuring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. For the book, Chaos: A Kay Scarpetta Novel (William Morrow), readers will have to wait for its official release on November 15.

More Depraved Heart‬ and more with Libby Purves on BBC Radio 4 12/16/2015 Libby Purves meets crime writer Patricia Cornwell; astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell; musician Simon Nicol and adventurer Benedict Allen. Watch KIRKUS REVIEW, Depraved Heart 12/03/2015 Another gritty, world-weary tale of mayhem by masterful mysterian Cornwell (Flesh and Blood, 2014, etc.).

More Book review: Cornwell’s latest brims with head-spinning plot twists 12/01/2015 This heart-stopping, paranoia-fueled, propulsively readable, viscerally suspenseful, disconcertingly shifty new mystery in the Kay Scarpetta series — she heads up the Cambridge Forensic Center — complete with a labyrinthine lesbian loop, bodies piling up, strange sounds, the FBI and the Cambridge police and the CIA frighteningly intertwined, and helicopters is one of the most riveting […] Steve Wright in the afternoon 11/22/2015 ‘I would do a cameo in a heartbeat!’ Crime writer Patricia Cornwell wishes she had created her own forensic TV show More Patricia Cornwell on the Thrill of Writing Crime Novels as a Woman 11/21/2015 We talked with the best-selling crime novelist about what it’s like to be a millionaire, her theories on Jack the Ripper and Princess Diana, and writing your own role models as a woman. More ‘Depraved Heart,’ A Conversation With Patricia Cornwell 10/27/2015 Patricia Cornwell is known to millions of readers worldwide.

She has won nearly every literary award for popular fiction and has authored 29 New York Times bestsellers. Her novels center primarily on medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, along with her tech-savvy niece Lucy and investigator Pete Marino. Read More Patricia Cornwell talks latest novel ‘Depraved Heart’ 10/23/2015 Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta Series Turns 25 10/23/2015 Patricia Cornwell’s new book, Depraved Heart, (Harper Collins) marks the 25th anniversary of her Dr. Kay Scarpetta series, which basically introduced readers to the world of forensic research. (Think CSI, and NCIS). Read More ‘Depraved Heart’ 10/22/2015 “Depraved Heart” by Patricia Cornwell combines suspense with modern day forensics to make a riveting story. This is the 25th anniversary of the hugely popular Dr. Kay Scarpetta series.

People forget that Cornwell was on the forefront, one of the people most credited for launching the interest in forensic research, about a decade before the […] Patricia Cornwell: how extreme sports changed my life 10/17/2015 I’m always scared when I learn a new sport but my number one rule in life is that I will not be ruled by fear. If I’m afraid of something I’m going to figure out a way to deal with it. Since I was a little kid I’ve loved fast, powerful machines but the truth […] For Patricia Cornwell, gruesome details win readers 10/13/2015 Patricia Cornwell hung up the phone, ran into the ladies’ room and wept. Yes, I swear it. Around 1980, this bestselling crime novelist was a recent Davidson College graduate working as a feisty police reporter for the Charlotte Observer. That morning the paper had run her interview with a woman assaulted by a serial rapist.

[…] DEPRAVED HEART KIRKUS REVIEW 09/24/2015 Another gritty, world-weary tale of mayhem by masterful mysterian Cornwell (Flesh and Blood, 2014, etc.). More An Evening with Patricia Cornwell in conversation with Jamie Lee Curtis 09/17/2015 discussing the writing life and her new novel, Depraved Heart More Info Patricia Cornwell solves The Mystery of Edwin Drood in new show 08/24/2015 A student essay, in which the future Kay Scarpetta author set out to name the killer in Charles Dickens’s unfinished novel, has gone on display in London. Years before forensic pathologist-sleuth Kay Scarpetta was applying her finely-tuned mind to stopping the serial killers who plague Richmond, Virginia and its environs, her creator Patricia Cornwell was […] Exciting times in medicine. With backing from crime writer, McLean researchers seek clarity on medical marijuana More Patricia Cornwell Inks Two-Book Deal 05/12/2015 Author Patricia Cornwell has landed a two-book deal with HarperCollins.

Both titles continue the story of medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. The William Morrow imprint will publish the first book in Fall 2016 and the second book in Fall 2017. More Patricia Cornwell on latest book ‘Flesh and Blood’ 05/08/2015 New York Times best-selling author discusses writing her new thriller More DEPRAVED HEART 03/09/2015 I’m excited to tell you the title of my next Scarpetta novel: DEPRAVED HEART. You’ve seen some of the research I’ve been doing (diving in the Bermuda Triangle, flying, firearms training). So get ready for DEPRAVED HEART’s Fall 2015 release! In the meantime, the paperback edition of FLESH AND BLOOD is on sale June 30th. […] The 50 Best First Sentences in Fiction 01/28/2015 In a 2013 interview with Joe Fassler, horror fiction maestro Stephen King reflected on the magnitude of a novel’s introductory sentence. “An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story,” he said.

“It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.” The first sentence sets the stage—however long or […] Book review: Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta is back on the case 01/11/2015 Patricia Cornwell is at the top of her form. Yes, the text is loaded with forensic information on autopsies, guns, bullets and the trajectories of a sharp-shooting sniper’s aim as well as bureaucratic infighting, feuds, fracases and furies. At the same time, her probing of her characters’ psychological depths and motives is elegantly nuanced, evocative […] A Better Approach to “Write Every Day” 01/09/2015 Everywhere you look, it’s all about pushing ourselves, isn’t it? First came November’s NaNoWriMo, with all the tips for writing more, more, more, writing faster, faster, faster.

Then came the holidays, with 12 days left to shop/plan/wrap/bake/revise that manuscript from last month, 11, 10, 9 … And now it’s on to who can make the […] Book Talk: Patricia Cornwell on writing about darkness, loss 01/06/2015 (Reuters) – In the crime fiction realm, author Patricia Cornwell’s fame may be surpassed only by her brainchild and longtime heroine, forensics expert Kay Scarpetta. More Patricia Cornwell on shooters and Scarpetta 01/03/2015 PATRICIA Cornwell is no stranger to guns. She’s big on personal security and never wants to leave herself vulnerable. More ‘Writing is the best thing I do, but it’s also the hardest’ 12/29/2014 She has struggled with anorexia, alcohol and depression, among other dramas. But, like her heroine Dr Kay Scarpetta, bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell has mellowed, she tells Hannah Stephenson.

More The book that changed my life 12/23/2014 Nineteen-seventy-four was a year like no other. I was about to begin my senior year of high school. I needed to think about college but there was only one thing on my mind: tennis. More Kay Scarpetta Returns in Flesh and Blood, by Patricia Cornwell 12/18/2014 For nearly 25 years, Patricia Cornwell has been delighting mystery/thriller fans with one of the genre’s greatest female characters and greatest detectives in general. Kay Scarpetta endures because Cornwell has crafted her as a complex, living, breathing character, and then placed her in some of the most creative and exciting mystery plots of the modern age. Her […] Patricia Cornwell joins Suzy Klein 12/13/2014 Suzy Klein sits in for Claudia Winkleman and is joined by author Patricia Cornwell to discuss the new Kay Scarpetta novel.

Listen LIZ SMITH: “Flesh and Blood” 12/12/2014 WHAT successful author Patricia Cornwell has shown us in her many terrific novels about forensic crime detection merely precedes the immediate future of solving mysteries in the lab. More Cornwell speeds up storytelling 12/11/2014 Chatting from her New York hotel where she is admiring the Manhattan skyline, Patricia Cornwell muses that far more than the city landscape has changed since she began writing 30 years ago. More Patricia Cornwell on Her Crime Library 12/10/2014 Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell, 58, is author of 32 books, including her latest, “Flesh and Blood” (William Morrow). She spoke with Marc Myers. On Christmas morning of 1961, my father walked out on us. I was 5 and could hear my parents fighting.

When I saw the suitcases, I wrapped myself around his leg, but […] Patricia Cornwell: Evolution of heroine a constant for writer 12/09/2014 Patricia Cornwell has come a long way since her days as a crime reporter for The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer and a computer analyst at the chief medical examiner’s office in Richmond, Va. She has published more than 30 books, with 22 of them about her forensic scientist and crime-solving protagonist, Kay Scarpetta. More Cornwell Resolute Over Jack The Ripper Identity 12/07/2014 Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell has reiterated to Sky News her claim to know the true identity of Jack the Ripper. The best-selling author has long had a fascination with the notorious Victorian killer and has spent over 11 years researching her theory that Jack the Ripper was a painter, publishing her findings in a book. […] Opening Locked Drawers with Patricia Cornwell Behind the Book 12/06/2014 “I always want to know what no one wants to show me,” says best-selling author ­Patricia Cornwell.

“I always want to open the drawer that’s locked to see what’s inside.” More Flesh and Blood book review 12/03/2014 Flesh and Blood is a crime novel by Patricia Cornwell. It is the 22nd novel in Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series, which began with Postmortem (1990). In Flesh and Blood, Cornwell’s beloved forensic sleuth tries to unravel the mystery of a serial sniper whose killings and motives seem to strike close to Scarpetta herself. More Talking Flesh And Blood with Dawn Neufeld 12/02/2014 New York Times Best-selling author Patricia Cornwell is at it again with a new Kay Scarpetta novel called “Flesh and Blood”. Watch Acclaimed crime writer on diving Bermuda’s wrecks 11/29/2014 One of the world’s best known crime writers, the US author and avid diver Patricia Cornwell, has extolled the Island’s water in today’s Telegraph.

More Amazon Asks: Patricia Cornwell, on Her New Novel, “Flesh and Blood” 11/28/2014 Flesh and Blood is Patricia Cornwell’s twenty-second novel featuring forensic sleuth Dr. Kay Scarpetta. This time Scarpetta pursues a sharp-shooting serial sniper, and her investigation leads too close to a family member–her own flesh and blood. Flesh and Blood is an Amazon Best Mystery-Thriller of the Month. More Patricia Cornwell’s Travelling Life 11/26/2014 Patricia Cornwell, the American author, recalls scuba diving in the Bermuda Triangle, a summer at Oxford University, and the scariest flight of her life. More Google Hangout Patricia Cornwell answers YOUR questions! Watch Now Where I stand 11/25/2014 Amazon Publishing has released an essay by bestselling author Patricia Cornwell, which documents her investigation of Jack the Ripper for her 2002 title, Portrait of a Killer. “Chasing the Ripper,” published today as a Kindle Single by Amazon imprint Thomas & Mercer, is priced at $1.99.

More Patricia Cornwell on her latest book ‘Flesh and Blood’ 11/24/2014 Author Patricia Cornwell weighs in on flying helicopters, Senator John McCain and her latest book ‘Flesh and Blood.’ More HarperCollins Campaign Streams New Book One Word at a Time 11/22/2014 To increase engagement around a new thriller, HarperCollins “spritzed” it one word at a time on a digital billboard at one of London’s busiest train stations. For the past two weeks, London commuters have been able to read Patricia Cornwell’s latest thriller, Flesh and Blood, for free on a digital billboard at the Liverpool Street […] Patricia Cornwell on writing and her character Kay Scarpetta 11/21/2014 Patricia Cornwell is a pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thrillers, and perhaps best known for her series following medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.

More Guns, gay marriage and a real-life murder: The private life of thriller writer Patricia Cornwell 11/21/2014 Patricia Cornwell has sold over 100 million books, owns an upscale apartment in Boston, a private helicopter, and has a personal fortune somewhere north of $75 million. So, naturally, she is telling me about her money worries. More Nikki chats with Patricia Cornwell 11/20/2014 Nikki chats it up with the vastly popular Patricia Cornwell on the release of her 22nd novel in the Dr. Kay Scarpetta series “FLESH AND BLOOD” which is in stores now! Listen below! More Author Patricia Cornwell has been moving and shaking up her veteran medical examiner Kay Scarpetta 11/18/2014 There were no forensic TV shows when Patricia Cornwell created chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in 1990, but the fictional doctor is going strong 24 years later as “Flesh and Blood,” the 22nd Scarpetta book and the second Boston-based one, hits shelves this week.

More Interview: Authors Patricia Cornwell and Anne Rice 11/16/2014 The stories Patricia Cornwell and Anne Rice tell have little in common. One writes about seeking justice for the dead; the other prefers exhuming the secrets of the undead. More Read more here: #storylink=cpy Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns in a new forensic crime adventure 11/15/2014 Author Patricia Cornwell has come a long way since her days as a crime reporter for the Charlotte Observer and a computer analyst at the chief medical examiner’s office in Richmond, Va More Flesh and Blood: A Fascinating Talk With Patricia Cornwell 11/13/2014 Patricia Cornwell is the internationally bestselling and award-winning author of 33 books, the most famous and widely read being the 22 novels of the “Kay Scarpetta” series. More Patricia Cornwell’s ‘Flesh and Blood’ 11/12/2014 The twenty-second novel to feature the indelible Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Flesh and Blood marks Cornwell’s first book with William Morrow—and reunites her with Editor David Highfill.

A forensics expert credited with introducing the genre, the author has also written five non-Scarpetta novels, two cookbooks, a biography, and a case study on the Jack the Ripper […] Patricia Cornwell launches book tour in Wilton 11/10/2014 Keeping a popular mystery series fresh and exciting for 22 books isn’t easy. Patricia Cornwell is nearing the 30th anniversary of her novels about forensic investigator Kay Scarpetta and longtime readers should be both thrilled and jolted by the new book, “Flesh and Blood” More A great interview with The Charlotte Observer, where I started. 11/09/2014 A persistent Patricia Cornwell publishes 22nd Scarpetta novel — Patricia Cornwell is taking calls from one reporter after the other – bam-bam-bam – 15 minutes apart – from her penthouse apartment in Boston, which overlooks Boston Harbor. More Meet Dr.

Kay Scarpetta 11/08/2014 In 1990, Postmortem was published to huge critical acclaim, winning a plethora of awards including the Edgar (US) and John Creasey (UK) Awards for Best First Novel. This was the first book in Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series. More. The latest about Flesh And Blood 11/07/2014 Patricia Cornwell’s books featuring her forensic sleuth Kay Scarpetta have been bestsellers for years, since her debut Post Mortem in 1990 inaugurated what is now a 22-book sequence. More Off to a good start! 10/28/2014 Ten books to read in November flesh and blood sneak peak 10/24/2014 You don’t have to have the new iPhone to enjoy this sneak peek of FLESH AND BLOOD in the iBooks store. Start reading now: Fun is coming to CBS! 10/15/2014 Best-selling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell is writing an original drama pilot for CBS through ABC Studios.

She will executive produce the yet-to-be-titled project with Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts. Read more: #ixzz3HLnK3jfH Meet Angie Steele 10/12/2014 CBS has bought a crime drama from one of the genre’s literary experts, bestselling author Patricia Cornwell Here’s something fun! Do you believe the science you read in crime fiction? More ‘Inspirational’ women choose favourite books for Baileys 05/20/2014 Nineteen “inspirational” women, including Caitlin Moran, Dawn O’Porter, Tanni Grey-Thompson and Sandi Toksvig, will mark 19 years of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction by sharing the books by women that have most impacted their lives. More One of my heroes. 04/18/2014 The “Good Morning America” anchor and author of “Everybody’s Got Something” calls Maya Angelou her literary hero. As a teenager in Mississippi, I identified with her quest for independence. More 01/25/2014 We ask a celebrity a set of devilishly probing questions – and only accept THE definitive answer.

This week it’s novelist Patricia Cornwell’s turn. More What Liz Smith says about Dust 12/24/2013 At that time in my life I was into wash-and-wear men who required no effort to maintain with no harm done. I wanted men who were easy to clean up after, cheap men, simple men to have sex with, to be served and serviced by, so I could forget what I know for a while.” […] Interview with The Star 12/23/2013 Merry Christmas, mystery fans. Here’s what Patricia Cornwell is stuffing into your bloodstained stocking this holiday season with her 21st Kay Scarpetta mystery, Dust. There’s a diabolical killer, high-end corporate espionage, deep psychological trauma, tummy-turning forensics, unbearable suspense and a complex emotional resolution set on — when else? — Christmas Day. Read More My Apple event in London 12/20/2013

Question: Who created the character Kay Scarpetta?
Answer: PATRICIA CORNWELL