While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Patricia Cornwell books.
- Chaos: A Scarpetta Novel (2019)
- Postmortem (1) (Kay Scarpetta) (2009)
- Depraved Heart: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta) (2016)
- Trace: Scarpetta (Book 13) (2012)
- Blow Fly: Scarpetta (Book 12) (2013)
- Black Notice: Scarpetta (Book 10) (2008)
- Body of Evidence. Patricia Cornwell (2011)
- Scarpetta: Scarpetta (Book 16) (2009)
- Cause of Death (Kay Scarpetta) (2007)
- At Risk (Win Garano) (2007)
- All That Remains: Scarpetta 3 (Kay Scarpetta) (2009)
Chaos: A Scarpetta Novel (2019)
“When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell.”—New York Times Book Review[PLEASE BOX:]CHAOSFrom the Ancient Greek (χάος or kháos)A vast chasm or void. Anarchy. The science of unpredictability.On a late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner, Pete Marino, respond to a call about a dead bicyclist near the Kennedy School of Government.
Postmortem (1) (Kay Scarpetta) (2009)
Discover the “dazzling…fascinating” (Los Angeles Times) novel that launched the New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta series from #1 bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell.Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city.
Depraved Heart: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta) (2016)
Patricia Cornwell delivers the newest engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.Depraved Heart: “Void of social duty and fatally bent on mischief.”—Mayes v. People, 806 III. 306 (1883)Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be?
Trace: Scarpetta (Book 13) (2012)
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORDr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Richmond, Virginia’s recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he needs Scarpetta’s help to solve a perplexing crime.
Blow Fly: Scarpetta (Book 12) (2013)
Settling into her new life as a private forensic consultant, Kay Scarpetta agrees to investigate a cold case in Louisiana—the baffling eight-year-old murder of a woman with a history of blackouts and violent outbursts. Then she receives news that chills her to the core: Jean-Baptiste Chandonne—the vicious and unrepentant Wolfman who pursued her to her very doorstep—has asked to see her. From his cell on death row, he demands an audience with the legendary Dr. Scarpetta.
Black Notice: Scarpetta (Book 10) (2008)
Remains were all that was left of the stowaway. He arrived in Richmond’s Deep Water Terminal—the ghastly cargo of a ship from Belgium. The decomposed body gives Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta no clues to its identity—or the cause of death. But an odd tattoo soon leads her on an international search to Interpol’s headquarters in Lyon, France—and towards a confrontation with one of the most savage killers of her career
Body of Evidence. Patricia Cornwell (2011)
A reclusive writer is dead. And her final manuscript has disappeared Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West – but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer inThus begins for Dr Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre.
Scarpetta: Scarpetta (Book 16) (2009)
Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward.
Cause of Death (Kay Scarpetta) (2007)
Dr. Kay Scarpetta plunges into the murky depths of a ship graveyard to recover the very human remains of Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter. Together with her niece Lucy and police captain Pete Marino, Scarpetta will follow the scents of death and violence to the heart of sinister darkness.*San Francisco Chronicle
At Risk (Win Garano) (2007)
A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy.
All That Remains: Scarpetta 3 (Kay Scarpetta) (2009)
With All That Remains, #1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta for the third installment of the classic suspense fiction series that begins with Postmortem.In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president’s newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr.
Best Patricia Cornwell Books Reviewed & Ranked
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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
ID: 2498410, Publisher: Amazon Publishing, Year: 2017, Size: 4 Mb, Format: epub
Chasing the Ripper
Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
ID: 3171542, Publisher: , Year: 2014, Size: 115 Kb, Format: epub
Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper -- Case Closed
Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
ID: 729555, Publisher: Berkley, Year: 2011, Size: 5 Mb, Format: epub
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