Books like Scarpetta's winter table by Patricia Cornwell

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.

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.

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.

When a 26‑year‑old bicyclist dies under strange circumstances, forensic chief Kay Scarpetta suspects foul play and is stalked by a cyberbully sending cryptic poems. The case unfolds against a backdrop of forensic science, media scrutiny, and personal stakes.

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.

Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta faces a chilling collision of an execution and a teenage murder, uncovering a serial killer’s pattern while protecting her own reputation.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, working freelance in Florida, investigates a cold case that travels from sunny Southern shores to icy Boston, confronting a cunning killer whose psyche tests her limits.

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.

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.

Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice. A young man drops dead, apparently from a heart condition, eerily close to Scarpetta's home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler. When the revolutionary 3D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen, Scarpetta realizes that this is a case of murder - and that she is fighting a cunning and uniquely cruel enemy. Now it is a race against time to discover who and why before more people die. But that time is running out ...