Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series invented the modern forensic thriller. Starting in 1990 with Postmortem, medical examiner Kay Scarpetta has been cracking cold cases, battling serial killers, and defining the genre for 35 years. Here's everything you need to know about listening to the full series on audiobook.
The Scarpetta series has something rare: multiple beloved narrators who have each defined different eras of the series. The forensic details, procedural tension, and Cornwell's precise prose all land differently when spoken aloud — especially the morgue scenes, which are clinical and chilling in equal measure.
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