Patricia Cornwell

Doktor Kay Scarpetta przeprowadza sekcję Toni Darien, młodej biegaczki, którą znaleziono martwą w Central Parku. Policja uważa, że ofiara została zgwałcona i zamordowana krótko przed znaleźnym ciała. Scarpetta ma wiele wątpliwości, bo znamiona śmierci świadczą, że kobieta zmarła co najmniej trzydzieści sześć godzin wcześniej. Scarpetta i jej mąż,...

It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational...

The fingerprints say the murderer is the man who's just been executed ...At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue Dr Kay Scarpetta waits for Waddell's body. Preparing to perform a post-mortem before the subject is dead is a strange feeling, but...

The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's number 1 bestselling crime writer. In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed,...

After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to recover, but an unsettling call drives her straight back to work. The body of a young woman has been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, draped in an unusual cloth and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's...

The latest instalment in the internationally acclaimed series of crime novels featuring the medical examiner, Dr Kay Scarpetta. Following her return to Richmond, Virginia, in "Trace", Dr Scarpetta is again asked to use her formidable forensic skills to tr...