Book of the Dead - Abridged
Scarpetta (Book 15)
Scarpetta: Book #15
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Mary Stuart Masterson
- Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Description
From America's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel.
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Scarpetta Series

Postmortem
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Four young women have been found murdered-tortured and strangled in their own beds-all victims of the same brilliant monster. Using a skilled hand and the latest technology in forensic medicine, Kay Scarpetta begins the process of gathering the microscopic clues the latest battered body has to give. Read more »
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Body of Evidence
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Late one night Beryl Madison turns off her burglar alarm, puts down her gun and opens her door to the man who has stalked and terrorized her for months. Hours later, her brutally mutilated body lies in the city morgue. As Scarpetta begins searching for the microscopic clues to the killer’s identity, one question keeps nagging her: why did Beryl... Read more »
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All That Remains
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 12 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A serial killer is stalking Virginia’s young lovers, taking their lives and taunting police with a single clue: a jack of hearts. For two years, the meaning of this card has eluded FBI investigators. But as Scarpetta begins searching the victims’ remains for microscopic clues, she begins to suspect that someone in the FBI knows more about the... Read more »
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Cruel and Unusual
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
When an executed murderer’s fingerprints turn up at a new crime scene, Kay Scarpetta investigates. Prepare for the kind of riveting suspense this best-selling author delivers so well. Read more »
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Cause of Death
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia’s Elizabeth River, a scuba diver’s body is discovered near the Inactive Naval Shipyard. As the police begin searching for... Read more »
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Unnatural Exposure
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Filled with tension and continual surprises, Unnatural Exposure is a thrilling chapter in Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta's life--and a triumph for #1 New York Times best-selling author Patricia Cornwell. The body of an elderly woman is found dismembered in a Virginia landfill. Scarpetta initially believes the clues mirror that of... Read more »
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Trace - Abridged
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The heart-stopping new Dr. Kay Scarpetta thriller from America's #1-bestselling crime writer.
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago.
In Trace, Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that... Read more »

Trace
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
When Dr. Kay Scarpetta, freelancing from South Florida, returns to Richmond, Virginia, at the request of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a crime, she finds that nothing is as she left it: Her former lab is being demolished; the chief isn't really the one who requested her; her... Read more »
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Book of the Dead
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
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From America's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Dr. Kay Scarpetta no Read more »vel. Learn more

Book of the Dead - Abridged
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Mary Stuart Masterson
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From America's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel. Read more »
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Scarpetta - Abridged
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Mary Stuart Masterson
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From America’s #1 bestselling crime writers comes an extraordinary #1 New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta novel.
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... Read more »

Scarpetta
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
From America’s #1 bestselling crime writers comes an extraordinary #1 New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta novel.
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... Read more »

The Scarpetta Factor - Abridged
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Kate Burton
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the world's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel.
It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta-despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN- to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical... Read more »

The Scarpetta Factor
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 16 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From the world's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel.
It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta-despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN- to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical... Read more »

Port Mortuary
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Kate Burton
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer.
"When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell."
-The New York Times Book Review
Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell's eighteenth Scarpetta novel, is literally a port for the dead. In this fast-paced story, a treacherous path from Scarpetta's... Read more »
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Port Mortuary - Abridged
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Kate Burton
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer.
"When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell."
-The New York Times Book Review
Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell's eighteenth Scarpetta novel, is literally a port for the dead. In this fast-paced story, a treacherous path from Scarpetta's... Read more »
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Red Mist
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Kate Burton
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer.
Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a string of grisly killings. The... Read more »
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The Bone Bed
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over 2,000 miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect that the paleontologist’s... Read more »
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Dust
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
From the world’s number-one bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel.
Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she’s awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino.
A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been... Read more »

Flesh and Blood
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Lorelei King
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids’ game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete... Read more »
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Black Notice
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Following the post mortem of a stowaway which reveals neither cause of death nor identity, Dr Kay Scarpetta travels to Paris in search of information. In Paris she is given a secret mission, a mission which could ruin her career. Read more »
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Isle of Dogs
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 15 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Newly installed superintendent of the Virginia State Police, Judy Hammer, and her right hand and confidant, Andy Brazil, are at their wits’ end trying to protect the public from the politicians – and vice versa.
And amid the mayhem, an island off the coast of Virginia declares UDI – claiming its independence lies in the history of America’s first... Read more »
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The Last Precinct
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 16 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The eleventh Scarpetta novel, in which the Chief Medical Examiner is under a Grand Jury investigation for murder. She knows she’s being framed and she no longer knows who she can trust…
Physically and psychologically bruised by her encounter with the killer Chandonne, Dr Kay Scarpetta has to leave her home in the hands of the police team... Read more »
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Hornet's Nest
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 13 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
In this first title of a new mystery series, Cornwell introduces us to a dynamic trio of crime-solver in Charlotte, North Carolina: Andy Brazil, an eager young reporter; Judy Hammer, the city's police chief; and Virginia West. Hammer's deputy and a genuine head-turner. They're after a serial killer who pulls male out-of-towners from their rental... Read more »
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Point of Origin
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
This dazzling thriller pits Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta against greater odds than ever before.
Convicted serial killer Carrie Grethen has escaped from psychiatric hospital with plans for revenge. Wary and shaken, Scarpetta also has to investigate the death by fire of an unknown woman. The post-mortem reveals that the woman was stabbed... Read more »
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Blow Fly
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 12 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The Twelfth Dr Kay Scarpetta Novel.
Dr Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in quest of peace but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida, where she becomes entangled in an international conspiracy that confronts her with the shock of her life. Read more »
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Southern Cross
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Following in the path of her blockbuster Kay Scarpetta thrillers, Patricia Cornwell's novel is a testimony to the singular versatility and narrative power of one of the country's best-read storytellers. In Southern Cross, she casts her shrewd and knowing eye at the men and women in blue, in a story of corruption, scandal, and murder.
Richmond,... Read more »
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Chaos
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 13 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No
Fear is a force of nature. No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the twenty-fourth engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.
In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles... Read more »
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Autopsy
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: TBD
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Scarpetta is back! In this twenty-fifth in the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts an ingenious killer who has mastered cutting-edge science for the most nefarious ends.
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has returned to Virginia as the chief medical examiner. Finding herself the... Read more »
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Chaos
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 13 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.
In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she... Read more »
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Cause of Death - Abridged
By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: C. J. Critt
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It's New Year's Eve, the final night of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, and another poor soul has turned up dead. Ted Eddings, a scuba diver and investigative reporter who was a favorite at the medical examiner's office, is found 30 feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for the state... Read more »
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