1990 was a significant year for Patricia Cornwell as it saw the release of her first novel – Postmortem. This was also the first book in the Kay Scarpetta series and Postmortem went on to win several different awards.
Cornwell has since published many more Scarpetta books, releasing a new story in the series nearly every year, with most of them becoming NYT bestsellers.
On this page we’ve produced a complete list of novels in the Kay Scarpetta series in the order in which they were published. This chronological list has links to dedicated pages for each of the stories where you can find the following information:
- When it was published
- A description of the story (don’t worry – there aren’t any spoilers!)
- A picture of the book’s cover
- A link to the novel on Amazon for you to read reviews or buy a copy
If you’d like to see how these stories fit in with all her other releases, we have a separate page listing all of Patricia Cornwell’s books in order.
Kay Scarpetta Series In Order
- Postmortem
- Body Of Evidence
- All That Remains
- Cruel And Unusual
- The Body Farm
- From Potter’s Field
- Cause Of Death
- Unnatural Exposure
- Point Of Origin
- Black Notice
- The Last Precinct
- Blow Fly
- Trace
- Predator
- Book Of The Dead
- Scarpetta
- The Scarpetta Factor
- Port Mortuary
- Red Mist
- The Bone Bed
- Dust
- Flesh And Blood
- Depraved Heart
- Chaos
- Autopsy
- Livid
- Unnatural Death
- Identity Unknown
