Kay Scarpetta

• Kay Scarpetta Returns in Lifeless 'Port Mortuary'

Port Mortuary" (Putnam, $27.95), by Patricia Cornwell Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta and her friends investigate two bizarre murders in the 18th thriller to feature America's favorite medical examiner.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• December 03, 2010

• Icy Forensics Expert Warms Up

Flybots, neuroterrorists, synthetic biology, a packbot called MORT designed for body removal - sound familiar? Of course. It's Patricia Cornwell, back with her latest package of forensic horrors. And apparently right on time, in view of a newspaper story recently published about military enthusiasm for fighting war with robots. It pointed out that at a "Robotics Rodeo" at an Army training school, out was marched an array of spooky metal creatures that not only can protect soldiers but who never panic and whose unblinking eyes are never distracted. It must have been Kay Scarpetta's kind of place. Sometimes you get the impression that Ms. Cornwell's medical examiner extraordinaire is more comfortable with machines than fallible humans. And Dr. Scarpetta's favorite person, it would seem, ...

• The Washington Times
• December 10, 2010

• Latest Patricia Cornwell Novel a Tantalizing Read; Kay Scarpetta Back in Richmond to Help in a Case

Fans of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta mysteries won't be disappointed by her latest novel, "Trace," which returns Scarpetta to Richmond, Va., where she'd been fired five years earlier from her job as the state's chief medical examiner. Also figuring prominently into the plot are Scarpetta's lover, Benton Wesley, a forensic psychologist; her old friend and colleague, former police officer Pete Marino; and her niece, Lucy, who runs her own highly successful private-eye firm.

• The Columbian
• September 20, 2004

• Wanted: Dead or Alive

Apparently, our own need to see a dead man's testicles isn't strong enough. Tracking down the body at the morgue, where he hopes to confirm a diagnosis that only he could have arrived at, [Gil Grissom] discreetly lifts up the white sheet that's been draped over the construction worker's lower body, takes a peek and cops a feel. "Testicular atrophy," he announces with a slight air of triumph. "They're the size of peas." Even the guy who's about to perform the autopsy seems a little surprised by that one. "Poor guy!" he says. Yes, but that poor guy has just revealed to us that his death was probably a homicide instead of a suicide. "Stick a syringe in his carotid all the way up to his clavicle," Grissom orders. "You want his blood?" someone asks. "One pint, to go," he replies, without eve...

... then there's Patricia Cornwell's "Kay Scarpetta, Medical Examiner" murder mysteries, where the plo...

• Isthmus; Madison, Wis.
• August 11, 2009

• Best Sellers

FICTION Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam). Kay Scarpetta's meeting with an injured man in Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison ward leads to a murder mystery.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• December 21, 2008

• Scarpetta Returns in Lifeless 'Port Mortuary'

Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta and her friends investigate two bizarre murders in "Port Mortuary," the 18th thriller to feature America's favorite medical examiner. Training at Dover Air Force Base's Port Mortuary, Scarpetta gets tapped to solve the seemingly straightforward case of the sudden death of a man walking his dog near her home in Cambridge, Mass.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• December 06, 2010

• Review: Book of the Dead

* BOOK OF THE DEAD, by Patricia Cornwell; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 400 pages, $26.95. Before there was Catherine Willows or Gil Grissom, there was Kay Scarpetta, running the medical examiner's office in Richmond, Va., and solving serial murders via cutting-edge science.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• November 09, 2007

• A Franchise for Angelina

Lesbian mystery writer Patricia Cornwell's immensely popular medical examiner Kay Scarpetta may finally, after a very, very, very long wait, be coming to the big screen. And Angelina Jolie is the power player who's going to make sure it happens.

• Between the Lines; Livonia
• April 05, 2010

• 3 Things You Should Do Today

Reconnect with a classic. The Traveling Jones Theatre will perform "Edgar Poe Comes Alive" at noon at the Radford library. This year would be the writer's 200th birthday. Or reconnect with any of the dozen-plus novels featuring Kay Scarpetta and Pete Marino. Mystery author Patricia Cornwell is 53 today.

• Roanoke Times & World News
• June 10, 2009

• Cover to Cover

Before there was Catherine Willows or Gil Grissom, there was Kay Scarpetta, running the medical examiner's office in Richmond, Va., and solving serial murders via cutting-edge science. Patricia Cornwell's first novel, "Postmortem," introduced us to a hyperprofessional, a woman with both law and medical degrees, who could read a dead body like an English professor reads "Moby-Dick," teasing all manner of ideas from its blubber and bone.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• December 02, 2007