Books like Flesh and Blood by Patricia Cornwell
When a high‑school music teacher is shot dead with surgical precision, Dr. Kay Scarpetta must investigate a baffling serial sniper who leaves no evidence aside from fragments of copper. The pursuit takes her from New Jersey to Massachusetts and ultimately to the wrecked depths off South Florida. Along the way she unravels shocking clues that implicate her own niece, Lucy, revealing that the mystery may run deeper than any single crime.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Suspense/General Suspense
Authors: Patricia Cornwell
★
★
★
★
★
3.5 (2 community ratings)
How are these books recommended?
The books recommended for Flesh and Blood by Patricia Cornwell are shaped by reader interaction. Votes on how closely books relate, user ratings, and community comments all help refine these recommendations and highlight books readers genuinely find similar in theme, ideas, and overall reading experience.
Have you read any of these books?
Your votes, ratings, and comments help improve recommendations and make it easier
for other readers to discover books they’ll enjoy.
Books similar to Flesh and Blood (27 similar books)
Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule investigate a missing patient on Shutter Island’s Ashcliffe Hospital, only to confront sinister experiments and psychological horrors that threaten their sanity.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
When a friend of his adopted daughter reports a serial killer targeting traveling panhandlers, private investigator Lucas Davenport is drawn into North Dakota, where he uncovers a violent subculture and a deadly conspiracy.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
In southeast Minnesota, a school board vote to allow a local reporter to be killed triggers a mystery, as Virgil Flowers investigates a dognapping ring that has expanded into medical labs and a murder.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Senior forensic analyst Kay Scarpetta lends pro‑bono services to NYC’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner during a week before Christmas, drawing her into a series of dangerous and high‑profile cases that test her skills and threaten her life.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the mysterious scuba‑diving death of a reporter in Norfolk, Virginia, uncovering a conspiratorial plot by a fascist militia to seize an atomic power plant.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Eve Dallas, a police officer and author, receives a clue from a book that leads her to solve a murder in New York City.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A TV journalist on the verge of stardom becomes obsessed with finding her birth mother while covering a high‑profile murder trial, uncovering family secrets that threaten the inheritance of a wealthy, contested estate.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
After investigating a massive mass killing, forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta returns to Cambridge, Massachusetts, when a young woman’s body is found on MIT’s rugby field, linking the crime to a Washington D.C. serial killer.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD cop Milo Sturgis team up to chase a serial killer whose twisted motives and clever tactics keep the police and forensic psychologists on their toes.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec investigates a surprising death in the quiet village of Three Pines, uncovering a sinister truth beneath the seeming hunting accident.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Flora Dane survived a years‑long kidnapping and now struggles to reintegrate while Boston detective D.D. Warren investigates a brutal crime that may link her past and a new abduction.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
When Judy’s best friend’s housekeeper dies under suspicious circumstances, she suspects foul play and launches a personal investigation into a murder that hits too close to home.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, newly relocated to Charleston, opens a private forensic pathology practice and faces a series of baffling murders that threaten her career and life.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Kay Scarpetta, Richmond’s chief medical examiner, probes the murder of author Beryl Madison after her latest manuscript vanishes.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Detective Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns from Dublin to find a serial killer back on the loose, this time targeting her with a dead‑on Internet threat and a deadly smallpox‑like virus.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Two timelines converge in Boston as a modern investigator and a 19th‑century medical student race to solve a series of murders tied to a buried skull and a kidnapped baby.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Kay Scarpetta, Virginia’s chief medical examiner, faces a cunning killer who uses fire to conceal crimes, while an old nemesis resurfaces, turning the hunt into a personal tragedy.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
When Ali’s parents lose their life savings in a Ponzi scheme, her father becomes a suspect after a double homicide, and Ali and her husband fight to clear his name and bring justice to victims, including a cold‑blooded killer.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Detective Michael Ormewood investigates a brutal murder at Atlanta's Grady Homes, only to find the killer targeting his own life and a buried past resurfaces, forcing him to team up with Special Agent Will Trent.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Senior police officer Richard Jury investigates a long‑forgotten murder of Tess, a wife whose death was ruled an accidental fall, possibly linked to a fatal incident at a children’s party and a recent tower collapse near his bars.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Some Other Similar Books
The Kept Woman by Kathy ReichsThe Coffin Dancer by Jeffrey Deaver
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
The Bone Collection by Patricia Cornwell
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
Shattered by Jonathan Kellerman
Have a similar book in mind? Let others know!
Please login to submit books!