Have you read them all? The countdown to Scarpetta 20 begins

Posted by Emma Williams in Blog, Book News, Imprints, Little,Brown, News

This Autumn we are incredibly excited to be publishing the 20th Scarpetta thriller THE BONE BED by Patricia Cornwell.

In anticpation of this we will be posting a monthly blog piece celebrating the series so far. This month we will feature the first five Scarpetta thrillers, and we want to know: have you read them all? If not, then you are in luck because we are making one title a month available at a £1.99 or equivalent for 24 hours only!

This month you can purchase ALL THAT REMAINS from UK online retailers just £1.99 between 00.01 and 24.00 British Summer Time on June 28th. Click here to purchase through: Amazon; iBooks, or Kobo

In Australia you can purchase $AUD4.99 through: iBooks, google, Kobo and ebooks. In New Zealand you can purchase at $NZ5.49 at the same time, approximately midday June 28th to June 29th.

Scarpetta 1: Postmortem

A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedroom. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random – but always early on Saturday mornings.
So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical officer, is awakened at 2.33 am, she knows the news is bad: there is a fourth victim. And she fears now for those that will follow unless she can dig up new forensic evidence to aid the police.
But not everyone is pleased to see a woman in this powerful job. Someone may even want to ruin her career and reputation …

Scarpetta 2: Body of Evidence

Reclusive writer Beryl Madison is dead. And her final manuscript has disappeared …

Thus begins for Dr Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre. Why would Beryl open the door to someone who brutally slashed and then nearly decapitated her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with a prize-winning author and the disappearance of her own manuscript. As Scarpetta retraces Beryl's footsteps, an investigation that begins in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads her deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own.

Scarpetta 3: All That Remains

A killer is stalking young lovers. Taking their lives … and leaving just one tantalising clue …
When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodlands areas, Dr Kay Scarpetta's task as Chief Medical Examiner is made more difficult by the effects of the elements. Eight times she must write that the cause of death is undetermined.
But when the latest girl goes missing turns out to be the daughter of one of the most powerful women in America, Kay finds herself prey to political pressure and press harassment. As she starts to investigate, she finds that vital evidence is being withheld from her – or even faked. And all the time a cunning, sadistic killer is still at large …

Scarpetta 4: Cruel and Unusual

The fingerprints say the murderer is the man who's just been executed …

At 11.05 one December evening in Richmond, Virginia, convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair. At the morgue Dr Kay Scarpetta waits for Waddell's body. Preparing to perform a post-mortem before the subject is dead is a strange feeling, but Scarpetta has been here before. And Waddell's death is not the only newsworthy event on this freezing night: the grotesquely wounded body of a young boy is found propped against a rubbish skip. To Scarpetta the two cases seem unrelated, until she recalls that the body of Waddell's victim had been arranged in a strikingly similar position …

Scarpetta 5: The Body Farm

The Body Farm – a research institute that tests the decomposition of corpses.
Black Mountain, North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year, if they're unlucky, and where people are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night. But violent death is no respecter of venue, and the discovery of the corpse of the corpse of an 11-year-old girl sends shock waves through the community. Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief medical Examiner on a similar case in Virginia, is called in to apply her forensic skills to this latest atrocity, but the apparent simplicity of the case proves something of a poisoned chalice – until Scarpetta finds enlightenment through the curious pathologists' playground known as the Body Farm …