Patricia Cornwell – Confessions of a Bibliophile

2006: #75 – Cruel and Unusual (Patricia Cornwell)

September 7, 2006July 12, 2016

Title: Cruel and Unusual Series: Kay Scarpetta #04 Author: Patricia Cornwell Genre: Detective Fiction Publisher: Pocket Books Release Date: November 1, 2005 Pages: 416 “Killing me won’t kill the beast” are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution. But they can’t explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell’s fingerprints on another crime scene — after she’d performed his autopsy.

2006: #49 – All That Remains (Patricia Cornwell)

June 13, 2006August 26, 2022

Book #49 was All That Remains, the 3rd book in Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series. It’s interesting to read these early books in the series after reading a lot of the later ones. Fills in the blanks on some of the back story. Overall, this one was pretty good, though there was some stuff jumped over in the end, like Cornwell didn’t want to go

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2006: #4 – Postmortem (Patricia Cornwell)

January 19, 2006January 15, 2021

Book #4 was Postmortem, the first book in Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series. After reading a bunch of her later books, I finally read this first one. And felt like I had read it before. The entire thing felt familiar, but I’m sure I haven’t read it. And I felt like there was back story I was missing, like maybe this wasn’t the first book,

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2005: #73 – Cause of Death (Patricia Cornwell)

December 5, 2005January 15, 2021

Book #73 was Cause of Death, the 7th book in Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series. I grabbed this book as a back-up when we went north for Thanksgiving, thinking it was the first in the series. Oops, I didn’t realize I had 6 others on the shelf behind it! Not that it really matters, since I’ve read the later books. This was a pretty good