Patricia Cornwell Books in Order (from Scarpetta to Jack the Ripper)

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who is patricia cornwell?

Patricia Cornwell, America’s best-selling author, needs no introduction. her series on coroner kay scarpetta’s investigations made this former reporter one of the biggest names on the literary scene, and one of the most influential.

Cornwell also wrote other crime series, a children’s book, and some non-fiction, most famously an exploration of the Jack the Ripper murders.

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patricia cornwell books in order

kay scarpetta series in order

kay scarpetta was the chief medical examiner for the virginia community and works in richmond. she eventually quit before moving to florida…before another career change.

The bottom line is that she’s now been working to stop killers since the ’90s. Yeah, she was in forensics before CSI.

for more information, go to kay scarpetta’s dedicated reading order.

post mortem (1990)
body of evidence (1991)
everything what remains (1992)
cruel and unusual (1993)
the body farm (1994) – inspired by the real corpse farm.
from the potter’s field (1995)
cause of death (1996 )
unnatural exposure (1997)
point of origin (1998)
the table Scarpetta’s Winter (1998)
Black Notice (1999)
The Last Precinct (2000)
flying flight (2003)
tracking (2004)
predator (2005 )
the book of the dead (2007)
scarpetta (2008)
the scarpetta factor (2009)
port mortuary (2010)
red mist (2011)
the bed bone (2012)
dust (2013)
flesh and blood (2014)
depraved heart (2015)
chaos (2016)
autopsy(2021) )
furious (2022)

the andy brazil / judy hammer series in order

a series about a dynamic trio of crime solvers in charlotte, north carolina: andy brazil, a young and enthusiastic reporter; Judy Hammer, the city’s chief of police; and virginia west, congressman for hammer.

hornets’ nest (1996) – assistant manager virginia west likes and respects her boss, hammer, but with an increasing number of visiting businessmen murdered in her town by A maniac with a penchant for painting her victims bright orange, she finds it difficult to accept Hammer’s edict that a rookie reporter must patrol with her to improve relations with her citizens. Her worst fears are confirmed when the reporter, Brasil, presses the button to activate the boot unlock instead of the siren on her first outing. he’s not the only pest in her life right now: his cat is distraught, his hormones are misbehaving. her other member in the uniformed division is behaving like a jerk, the dispatched radio is determined to trip her up, the district attorney is in the middle of an uphill battle with the gavel, and the visiting judge’s bladder problems are wreaking havoc on the trial schedule. and orange corpses keep showing up on her plot.
southern cross (1998)-charlotte police chief judy hammer has been hired by a grant from the nij to clean up the police force. Reeling from the recent death of her husband, and resented by the police, the city manager, and the mayor of Richmond, Hammer joins his deputy chief Virginia West and rookie Andy Brazil on the toughest assignment of his career. she. In the face of overwhelming public scrutiny, the trio must bring truth, order, and sanity to a troubled city.
isle of dogs (2001): Chaos ensues when The Governor of Virginia orders speed bumps to be painted on all streets and highways, and warns that speeding drivers will be caught by aircraft flying overhead. But the eccentric island of Tangier, fourteen miles off the Virginia coast in the Chesapeake Bay, responds by declaring war on its own state. Judy Hammer, newly installed as superintendent of the Virginia State Police, and Andy Brazil, a state trooper and Hammer’s right-hand man and confidant, find themselves in despair as they try to protect the public from politicians, and vice versa. in this pitch-perfect, darkly comic game.

the series win won in order

a series about massachusetts state investigator win garano from knoxville, tennessee.

at risk (2006) – massachusetts state investigator win garano is called from knoxville, tennessee, where he is completing a course at the national forensic academy. His boss, the attractive but demanding district attorney, plans to run for governor, and as a showcase she plans to use a new crime-fighting initiative called At Risk, whose motto is “any crime, any time.” She in particular has been looking for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology, and she believes she has found the perfect subject in an unsolved murder twenty years ago in Tennessee. if her office cracks the case, she should make everyone look pretty good, right?
the front (2008)-da monique lamont has a special job for massachusetts state investigator win garaño. As part of a new public relations campaign about the dangers of run-down neighborhoods, Lamont is sending Win to Watertown to present a “drama,” and she thinks she knows the case she’ll serve. Garano is skeptical because she knows that Watertown is also the base of operations for a loose association of municipal police departments called the Front, set up to be independent of the state, much to Lamont’s annoyance. win senses a much deeper agenda, but has no idea how deep she is. In the following days, she will find Lamont’s homework. and the places she takes him to, will resemble a house of mirrors.

the captain’s chase series in order

a series about captain calli chase, nasa pilot, quantum physicist and cybercrime investigator…

quantum(2019): On the eve of a top-secret space mission, Captain Calli Chase spots an alarm going off in the tunnels beneath a NASA research facility. Calli, a NASA pilot, quantum physicist, and cybercrime investigator, knows that an impending blizzard and government shutdown could provide the perfect cover for a sabotage, with deadly consequences. she turns out the danger is worse than she thought. A dried blood splatter, a missing security plate, a suspicious suicide: a series of disturbing clues point to Calli’s twin sister, Carme, who has been mine for days.
spin (2020): After a NASA rocket launch goes terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face to face with her missing twin sister, as well as the shocking truth of who they really are. Now a top-secret program set in motion years ago has spiraled out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. With the help of cutting-edge technologies, NASA researcher-scientist-turned-Space Force pilot embarks on a frantic search for the missing link between the sabotaged rocket launch and her preordained destination… a search that someone else seems very interested in stopping.

children’s book by patricia cornwell

the little fable of life (1999) – jarrod leads an innocent and carefree existence in a faraway land, but faces temptation when he is offered everything he wants in return of venturing into a forbidden pond, in this fable of Eden.

patricia cornwell nonfiction

ruth, a portrait: the story of ruth bell graham (1983) – told in succinct, flowing prose, this portrait of ruth bell graham, world-famous evangelist billy graham’s wife gives the reader a first-hand look at some of the great events of the second half of this century. follows ruth bell graham first as a girl missionary from war-torn pre-revolutionary china and korea to peaceful wheaton, illinois, and then as the wife of a famous evangelist to the deep south, post-war europe and events in america since the 1950s.
Food to Die For: Kay Scarpetta’s Cooking Secrets (2002): The millions of fans who read Patricia’s bestsellers Cornwell know that her popular character, Kay Scarpetta, loves to kick back in the kitchen. book after book finds her harnessing her Italian heritage to create delicious meals for herself and her friends. Brimming with full-color photography and inspired by dozens of food scenes in Kay’s kitchen and her favorite restaurants, Food to Die For is a cookbook tailor-made for fans of Scarpetta.

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper: Case Closed (2002): The best-selling novelist turns her attention to the centuries-old series of true-life crimes that terrorized London in the 1880s, drawing on meticulous investigation, cutting-edge forensic science, and insights into the criminal mastermind to reveal the true identity of the infamous Jack the Ripper.
the ripper: the secret life of walter sickert (2017) – incorporating material from portrait of a murderer: jack the ripper—case closed, this new edition has been revised and expanded to include eight new chapters, detailed maps, and hundreds of images that bring the sinister case to life.

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