Patricia Cornwell has 36 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 19 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 317 ratings. The most-rated is Quantum: A Thriller.
Cruel and Unusual
Summary
When an executed murderer’s fingerprints turn up at a new crime scene, Kay Scarpetta investigates. Prepare for the kind of riveting suspense this best-selling author delivers so well.
©1993 Patricia D. Cornwell (P)1993 Recorded Books, LLC
The Bone Bed
Summary
A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over 2,000 miles away, in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect that the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes - much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures, and trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age. When she turns to those around her, Scarpetta finds that the danger and suspicion have penetrated even her closest circles. Her niece Lucy speaks in riddles. Her lead investigator, Pete Marino, and FBI forensic psychologist and husband, Benton Wesley, have secrets of their own. Feeling alone and betrayed, Scarpetta is tempted by someone from her past as she tracks a killer both cunning and cruel. This is Kay Scarpetta as you have never seen her before. The Bone Bedis a must-listen for any fan of this series, or an ideal starting point for new readers.
©2012 Patricia Cromwell (P)2012 Penguin Audio
Spin
Summary
Captain Calli Chase races against time to thwart a plot that leaves the fate of humanity hanging in the balance in this new thriller from international bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister - as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between the sabotaged rocket launch and her predetermined destiny...a search that someone else seems very interested in stopping. From NASA to the Chase family farm, to the White House to distant orbits of space, Calli plays a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek with a cunning and ruthless adversary. One wrong move will unleash cataclysmic consequences reaching far beyond the boundaries of Earth. This heart-pounding Captain Chase thriller from Patricia Cornwell will leave readers desperate for more.
©2021 by Cornwell Entertainment, Incorporated. (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Hornet's Nest
Summary
In this first title of a new mystery series, Cornwell introduces us to a dynamic trio of crime solvers in Charlotte, North Carolina: Andy Brazil, an eager young reporter; Judy Hammer, the city's police chief; and Virginia West, Hammer's deputy and a genuine head turner. They're after a serial killer who pulls male out-of-towners from their rental cars and then mutilates, spray paints, and shoots them, in that order. What the trio uncovers jolts them like the sting of the hornet - Charlotte's symbol.
©1996 Cornwell Enterpises, Inc. (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers
Knochenbett
Summary
Eine verschwundene Paläontologin, von der nur noch das Foto ihres abgeschnittenen Ohrs existiert. Und die Mumie einer Frau, die im Bostoner Hafen gefunden wird. Dr. Kay Scarpetta bekommt es mit einer ebenso düsteren wie bizarren Mordserie zu tun, die sie selbst in größte Schwierigkeiten bringt. Kay Scarpetta ist als Zeugin im Prozess gegen einen Öl-Tycoon geladen, dem der Mord an seiner spurlos verschwundenen Ehefrau vorgeworfen wird. Wenige Stunden zuvor musste die berühmte Rechtsmedizinerin noch unter schwierigsten Umständen die mumifizierte Leiche einer Frau aus dem Bostoner Hafen bergen. Handelt es sich bei der Toten um die vermisste Industriellengattin? Diese Frage stellt sich auch die Anwältin des Angeklagten, die alles daran setzt, Scarpettas Reputation zu untergraben. Fieberhaft beginnt die Rechtsmedizinerin mit der Untersuchung der Mumie. Daneben machen ihr noch ganz andere Probleme zu schaffen: Ihr Chefermittler Pete Marino gerät unter Mordverdacht, und ihr Ehemann Benton Wesley scheint sich von ihr abzuwenden. Steuert Kay Scarpetta auf eine berufliche und private Katastrophe zu? Der zwanzigste Fall für Kay Scarpetta
©2013 Hoffmann und Campe Verlag (P)2013 Hoffmann und Campe Verlag
At Risk
Summary
For decades, Patricia Cornwell has demonstrated her extraordinary ability not only to entertain and enthrall but to surprise as well. Beginning in January 2006, The New York Times Magazine serialized a brand-new Cornwell thriller, a book filled with all the chilling suspense, rich characters, and trademark forensics that have made her an international phenomenon. But what she does with those ingredients is a revelation. A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney, attractive but hard-charging, is planning to run for governor, and as a showcase she's planning to use a new crime initiative called At Risk; its motto: "Any crime, any time." In particular, she's been looking for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology, and she thinks she's found the perfect subject in an unsolved 20-year-old murder-in Tennessee. If her office solves the case, it ought to make them all look pretty good, right? Her investigator is not so sure, not sure about anything to do with this woman, really, but before he can open his mouth, a shocking piece of violence intervenes, an act that shakes up not only both their lives but the lives of everyone around them. It's not a random event. Is it personal? Is it professional? Whatever it is, the implications are very, very bad indeed...and they're about to get much worse. Sparks fly, traps spring, twists abound. This is the master working at the top of her game.
©2006 Cornwell Enterprises, Inc. (P)2006 Penguin Audio, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., and Books on Tape. All rights reserved. Penguin Audio is a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Blut
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Eine rätselhafte Mordserie versetzt die Gefangenen im Hochsicherheitstrakt von Savannah in Angst und Schrecken. Scarpetta besucht das Frauengefängnis, wo jemandem die Todesstrafe offenbar nicht grausam genug ist. Und der Täter hat es noch auf weit mehr Opfer abgesehen.
©2012 Hoffmann und Campe Verlag (P)2012 Hoffmann und Campe Verlag
Paranoia
Summary
Während sie einen Tatort untersucht, erhält Dr. Kay Scarpetta ein Video auf ihr Handy. Als sie es abspielt, kann sie kaum glauben, was sie sieht. Denn die Aufnahmen stellen alles infrage, was sie über ihre Nichte Lucy zu wissen glaubte... Die Bilder zeigen Lucy bei einer schweren Straftat, und Scarpetta weiß, dass sie sich weder ihrem Ehemann Benton Wesley noch ihrem Kollegen Pete Marino anvertrauen darf, um ihrer Nichte zu helfen. Auf sich allein gestellt, sieht sich Scarpetta schon bald mit einer Reihe von Morden konfrontiert, die eine Gefahr aus ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit heraufbeschwören.
©2016 Headroom (P)2016 Headroom
Il fattore Scarpetta
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È la settimana prima di Natale e Kay Scarpetta sta prestando servizio volontario presso l'Istituto di medicina legale di New York, dove le viene chiesto di esaminare il cadavere di una ventiseienne, Toni Darien, ritrovato poco prima dell'alba a Central Park. La causa del decesso sembra banale ma, quando si tratta di stabilire l'ora precisa della morte, l'ipotesi di Kay pare incompatibile con gli elementi emersi dalle indagini. Inevitabilmente l'omicidio viene messo in relazione con la recente sparizione di Hannah Starr, bellissima multimilionaria svanita nel nulla. Tutto ciò rischia di innescare una psicosi collettiva, amplificata dall'apparizione di Kay Scarpetta a una trasmissione di attualità della CNN, durante la quale riceve un'inquietante telefonata da un ex paziente del marito. La CNN, tra l'altro, le propone di condurre una trasmissione, Il fattore Scarpetta, ma Kay teme di diventare lo stereotipo di se stessa. Quella sera stessa, tornata a casa, riceve un pacco sospetto, forse una bomba. Una minaccia che ha origine nel suo passato e in quello delle due persone che le sono più vicine: il marito e la nipote Lucy. Il fattore Scarpetta riunisce tutti i personaggi più amati da Patricia Cornwell in una New York imbiancata dalla neve, ancora pesantemente segnata dalla tragedia dell'11 settembre e scossa sia dalla crisi economica sia dalle pesanti speculazioni finanziarie. Un complicatissimo caso di omicidio, un nuovo agghiacciante capitolo nella vita di Kay Scarpetta.
©2020 Mondadori (P)2020 Mondadori
Il libro dei morti
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Dopo l'ultimo devastante caso che l'ha vista in azione in Florida, Kay Scarpetta si trasferisce a Charleston, nel South Carolina, dove apre uno studio di patologia forense con l'irrinunciabile aiuto della nipote Lucy e del fidato Pete Marino. Proprio quando sembra prendere avvio una tranquilla esistenza nella routine della provincia americana, Kay è chiamata a Roma per collaborare alle indagini sull'orrenda fine di una giovane campionessa di tennis statunitense. Un caso che sembra collegarsi a quello di un bambino morto proprio a Charleston in seguito alle privazioni e ai maltrattamenti. E a tutto ciò non sembra essere estranea una vecchia nemica di Kay, la psichiatra Marilyn Self. Cosa lega questi casi? Perché l'assassino scrive alla dottoressa Self prima di uccidere le sue vittime e di accanirsi con inaudita ferocia sui loro corpi? Ancora una volta Kay Scarpetta dovrà mettersi sulle tracce del colpevole, interpretandone i messaggi prima che sia troppo tardi.
©2010 Mondadori (P)2020 Mondadori
Southern Cross
Summary
Following in the path of her blockbuster Kay Scarpetta thrillers, Patricia Cornwell's novel is a testimony to the singular versatility and narrative power of one of the country's best-read storytellers. In Southern Cross she casts her shrewd and knowing eye at the men and women in blue, in a story of corruption, scandal, and murder. Richmond, Virginia, is a city rich in Southern history yet overrun by such modern-day problems as drug trafficking and escalating juvenile crime. Former Charlotte police chief Judy Hammer is brought in to clean up the police force - the most difficult assignment of her career. Now, in the face of overwhelming public scrutiny, she must navigate through local politics and prejudices to solve a brutal murder that springs straight from the rotting core of Richmond's heart.
©1998 Cornwell Enterpises, Inc. (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers
The Front
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In The Front, D.A. Lamont has a special job for Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano. As part of a new public-relations campaign about the dangers of declining neighborhoods, she's sending him to Watertown to "come up with a drama", and she thinks she knows just the case that will serve. Garano is very skeptical, because he knows that Watertown is also the home base for a loose association of municipal police departments called the Front, set up in order that they don't have to be so dependent on the state - much to Lamont's anger. He senses a much deeper agenda here - but he has no idea just how deep it goes. In the days that follow, he'll find that Lamont's task, and the places it leads him, will resemble a house of mirrors - everywhere he turns, he's not quite sure if what he's seeing is true. This is the master writing at the absolute top of her game. You will never guess what lies behind The Front.
©2008 Patricia Cornwell (P)2008 Penguin Audio
Kay Scarpetta
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Abbandonato il suo lavoro di patologa forense a Charleston, in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta viene convocata dal dipartimento di polizia di New York per esaminare Oscar Bane, un paziente dell'ospedale psichiatrico di Bellevue accusato di omicidio. Costui ha espressamente fatto il suo nome e non intende parlare con nessun altro. Davanti a Kay sostiene di non essere l'autore del delitto e le racconta una storia incredibile, secondo la quale le ferite che ha sul corpo sarebbero state provocate durante l'uccisione di Terri Bridges, la sua ragazza, da qualcuno che lo ha spiato, seguito, studiato e che infine ha aggredito lui e Terri. Oscar potrebbe essere uno psicopatico e mentire, ma le torture e le mutilazioni che Terri ha subito non sono false. Così, assieme allo psicologo forense Benton, da poco suo marito, e alla nipote Lucy, Kay comincia un'indagine che attraversa le strade della città e gli angoli più oscuri di Internet, per scoprire che l'omicida potrebbe essere in realtà molto più vicino di quanto si creda...
©2010 Mondadori (P)2020 Mondadori
Bastard
Summary
Ein junger Mann bricht unvermittelt auf der Straße zusammen und stirbt. Im Gerichtsmedizinischen Institut von Kay Scarpetta stellt man rätselhafte Blutungen an der Leiche fest. Ein Skandal, der Scarpettas Karriere für immer beenden könnte.
©2011 Hoffmann und Campe Verlag (P)2011 Hoffmann und Campe Verlag
Scarpetta Factor
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Gerichtsmedizinerin Dr. Kay Scarpetta untersucht die Leiche einer ermordeten jungen Frau. Ist auch sie ein Opfer des noch unbekannten "Taximörders" geworden?
©2010 Hoffmann und Campe Verlag (P)2010 Hoffmann und Campe Verlag
Isle of Dogs
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Newly installed superintendent of the Virginia State Police, Judy Hammer, and her right hand and confidant, Andy Brazil, are at their wits' end trying to protect the public from the politicians - and vice versa. And amid the mayhem, an island off the coast of Virginia declares UDI, claiming its independence lies in the history of America's first settlers - those who set sail from London's Isle of Dogs in 1607.
©2001 Cornwell Enterpises, Inc. (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers