Have you read them all? Countdown to Scarpetta 20 post 2

Posted by Emma Williams in Blog, Book News, Little,Brown, Recommended Reading

In anticpation of publication of the 20th Scarpetta novel, THE BONE BED by Patricia Cornwell this autumn we are posting a monthly blog piece celebrating the series so far.

This month we are featuring Scarpetta novels 6-10, and we are offering you the opportunity to purchase one of these on ebook at the very special price of £1.99 or the equivalent for just 24 hours only. So if you haven't read them all yet – you can catch-up now!

You can purchase UNNATURAL EXPOSURE from UK online retailers just £1.99 between 00.01 and 24.00 British Summer Time on July 25th. 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 July 25th to July 26th.

Scarpetta 6: From Potter’s Field

The body was naked, female and found propped against a fountain in a bleak area of New York's Central Park. Her apparent manner of death points to a modus operandi that is chillingly familiar: the gunshot wound to the head, the sections of skin excised from the body, the displayed corpse – all suggest that Temple Brooks Gault, Scarpetta's nemesis, is back at work …

Scarpetta 7: Cause of Death

New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year takes Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. A diver, Ted Eddings, is dead, an investigative reporter who was a favourite at the Medical Examiner's office. Was Eddings probing the frigid depths of the Inactive Shipyard for a story, or simply diving for sunken trinkets? And why did Scarpetta receive a phone call from someone reporting the death before the police were notified?

Scarpetta 8: Unnatural Exposure

A sadistic serial killer, the weapon a deadly virus
Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia: separated by thousands of miles – linked by murder. For Dr Kay Scarpetta a lecture stint in Ireland provides the perfect opportunity to find out if the murders on both sides of the Atlantic are indeed connected. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland five years ago – now four have been discovered in the States.
But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. There are vital discrepancies, and an indication that the elderly victim was already seriously ill. A copy-cat killing. Ghoulish, perhaps, but not unusual. And then abject terror grips Scarpetta and her colleagues when the next body is found. The circumstances of death broadcast a clear and horrifying message: the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth – smallpox.

Scarpetta 9: Point of Origin

Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds a body which tells a story of a violent and grisly murder. The fire has come at the same time as another, even more incendiary horror: Carrie Grethen, a killer who nearly destroyed the lives of Scarpetta and those closest to her, has escaped from a forensic psychiatric hospital. Her whereabouts is unknown, but her ultimate destination is not, for Carrie has begun to communicate with Scarpetta, conveying her deadly – if cryptic – plans for revenge.

Scarpetta 10: Black Notice

In a story which crosses international borders, BLACK NOTICE puts Dr Kay Scarpetta directly in harm's way and places her and those she holds dear at mortal risk.
The case begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond, Virginia's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway. The post mortem performed by the Chief Medical Examiner, Kay Scarpetta, initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal effects and an odd tattoo take Scarpetta on a hunt for information that leads to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, where she receives critical instructions: go to the Paris morgue to receive secret evidence and then return to Virginia to carry out a mission. It is a mission that could ruin her career.

The countdown to Scarpetta 20: The Bone Bed continues.

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