Patricia Cornwell Read Alikes
Patricia Cornwell writes mysteries featuring a lot of forensic detecting. Her series character, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, is a forensics expert. Her books are filled with accurate detail, but not for the faint of heart.
If you enjoy her books, you may also like the books and authors listed below.
- Remains silent
- by Michael Baden
- Dr. Jake Rosen, chief medical examiner for New York City, is asked to help with the discovery of human remains at a construction site in the Catskills. The family of one victim hires lawyer Philomena "Manny" Manfreda to represent them in the investigation into the deaths. Manny and Jake find themselves drawn into a shocking story of deceipt and murder. The authors are, themselves, a forensic examiner and a lawyer.
- Flesh and bone
- by Jefferson Bass
- Dr. Bill Brockton, a professor and founder of the Body Farm, a laboratory devoted to the study of human decomposition, starts work on a case involving a young man whose body has been found in Chattanooga. Matters become more complicated when a killer tampers with the recreation of the death scene at the Body Farm by placing another corpse at the setting. This action, in turn, baffles authorities and soon Brockton is accused of murder.
- The Bone Collector
- by Jeffery Deaver
- Lincoln Rhymes was a great police detective until a falling beam crushed his back and left him a quadruplegic. Now he has recovered his will to live and focused his considerable intellect to solving crime from his wheelchair. Now Rhyme and his beautiful protege Amelia Sachs follow the trail of evidence left by the killer, who seems obsessed with historic New York.
- Twenty Blue devils
- by Aaron Elkins
- Our anthropologist/sleuth is called on to investigate the suspicious death of coffee plantation owner Brian Druett--on a plantation aptly named Paradise. But when he arrives, he is told that his services are no longer needed. Not one to be dissuaded, Oliver examines the skeleton, regardless. Yet the investigation yields more clues than answers. Who was Brian? And what was Brian? The deeper he probes, the more mysterious the tale. Now, Gideon must risk his life to find the evil that is poisoning Paradise
- Body double
- by Tess Gerritsen
- Medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles gets the shock of her life when a lifeless body on the medical examiner's table turns out to be the identical twin sister she never knew she had. Searching for answers and with the killer at large, Maura is drawn to a seaside town in Maine where other dark secrets await.
- One drop of blood
- by Thomas Holland
- As the director of the Department of the Army's Central Identification Laboratory, Robert Dean "Kel" McKelvey has made a career solving some of the country's most complex identification cases. Kel becomes involved in a complicated case when a rare DNA strand links the recovered body of a Vietnam War hero to a forty-year-old unsolved racial killing in the Arkansas delta. Lots of interesting esoteric detail.
- Body of lies
- by Iris Johansen
- A past she thought buried...a murder she was driven to solve... Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has been summoned to Baton Rouge by a high-ranking government official to identify the remains of an unknown murder victim. Eve wants nothing to do with the project. She has finally found peace from her own tragic past, living a quiet life with Atlanta detective Joe Quinn and her adopted daughter, Jane. Then a stunning series of seemingly unrelated events turns Eve’s new world upside down. A killer so deceptive, he leaves nothing behind but his victims...
- Dante's inferno
- by Sarah Lovett
- When a massive explosion blasts through the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu and kills innocent visitors, the police peg mysterious loner John Dantes as the killer. But there's something about him that puzzles Dr. Sylvia Strange, who is called in to perform a psychiatric evaluation. She's not convinced he's the killer. She is, however, convinced that he's the key to understanding--and finding--the bomber.
- If I'd killed him when I met him
- by Sharyn McCrumb
- Forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson takes on a complex case where Donna Jean Morgan finds herself accused of murdering her Bible-thumping bigamist of a husband. What is worse, one of Donna Jean's ancestor's is believed to have killed her husband by the same means. Elizabeth's forensic expertise, including her knowledge of poisons, helps her save poor Donna Jean.
- Monday mourning
- by Kathy Reichs
- Tempe Brennan finds the skeletonized remains of three young women in the basement of a pizza parlor in Montreal. Homicide detective, Luc Claudel believes the bones are historic, but laboratory tests prove the murders are recent.