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Dr.
Kay Scarpetta - Chief Medical Examiner - Richmond,
Virginia
"Unnatural Exposure"This series
features Dr. Kay Scarpetta who is a forensic scientist (like Scully on
the
TV series X-Files).
These books are
If you haven't already started reading her books, you should read them in the order in which she wrote them since her characters grow with each novel. Though I haven't read beyond Unnatural Exposure, many people claim that the latest two novels are harder to get into because they dwell too much on Kay Scarpetta's emotions and thus are more drawn out than the earlier ones. However, my niece still says they are worth the read and remains an avid fan. (Reviewed 7-19-98, updated 02-23-02) Amazon reader
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"Hornet's Nest"Thumbs down on this one... This book is like an exercise in describing the law enforcement, press, and political arenas of the city if they were run by women and well meaning men. Too much time spent on character development and not enough on the details of a crime that makes the Scarpetta novels so good. (Reviewed 11-10-98) Amazon reader
rating: Note on Isle of Dogs: There has been much speculation if Isle of Dogs is the third book in this series and it is. Some people have liked the "comic romp" but most people in online reading groups say "don't bother." It seems to me that what didn't work in Hornet's Nest, still doesn't. (back to top) Bibliography (with links to Amazon.com):Featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta:
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(back to top) About the Author:Patricia
Daniels Cornwell was born in 1956 in Miami, Florida. Her father was an
appellateattorney and her mother a secretary. Her parents divorced and
when she was seven her mother moved her and her two brothers to In 1983 she wrote her first book, a biography of Ruth Bell Graham. Between 1984 and 1986 she wrote three novels based on her crime experience - but all were rejected. Sara Ann Freed at Mysterious Press recommended that she expand Scarpetta, rather than using the male detective, as the central character. Thus in 1990, her first novel, Postmortem. Her preparation paid off. Postmortem was the first novel ever to win the Edgar Casey, Creasey, Anthony and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix du Roman D'Aventurie, in a single year. Cornwell now lives in New York and Richmond, Virginia.
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Montreat,
North Carolina. Ruth and Bill Graham lived nearby and it was Ruth who
told her to write. She went to Kings College in Tennessee and then transferred
to Davidson College in North Carolina. After graduating, she married her
former English Professor, Charles Cornwell, who is seventeen years older
than her. In 1979, just out of college, she started her first job as a
reporter for the Charlotte Observer, soon becoming an award winning police
reporter. In 1984 she took a job in the Virginia medical examiner's office
and worked at the morgue for six years, first as a technical writer then
as a computer analyst. She also volunteered as a city cop. In 1988 her
husband received an offer to become a pastor at a church in Texas. She
refused to go and thus they agreed to an amicable divorce in 1990. (He
is now her editor.) 
