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Kay Scarpetta is a fictional character inspired by former Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Marcella Farinelli Fierro MD (retired). [1] She is the protagonist in a series of crime novels written by Patricia Cornwell noted for its use of recent forensic technology in Scarpetta's investigations.
Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels; June 9, 1956) is an American crime writer.She is known for her best-selling novels featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, of which the first was inspired by a series of sensational murders in Richmond, Virginia, where most of the stories are set.
Scarpetta, also known as Kay Scarpetta, [2] is an upcoming American television series created by Liz Sarnoff for Amazon Prime Video. It is based on the book series of the same name by Patricia Cornwell , and is produced by Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis , who star.
Claudia N. Oltean says the 25th book in the Patricia Cornwell series brings the main character back to her roots as Virginia's chief medical examiner.
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the chief medical examiner of the Commonwealth of Virginia, is called to the scene of a gruesome strangling, the latest in a string of unsolved murders in Richmond. Among the clues left by the killer is a mysterious substance which fluoresces under laser light, which the killer has used to clean the scenes of forensic evidence.
Kay Scarpetta is called in to assist in the investigation of the brutal murder of 11-year-old Emily Steiner in rural North Carolina, whose murder resembles the handiwork of a serial killer who has eluded the FBI for years. Scarpetta is joined by her ingenious and rebellious niece, Lucy, an FBI intern with a promising future in Quantico's ...
Prime Video has officially ordered two seasons of Scarpetta, more than 18 months after Nicole Kidman’s name was first attached to the series adaptation of Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta novels.
Gail Pennington of the St Louis Post Dispatch states that "even the most ardent Cornwell fans may reluctantly realize that enthusiasm for the Scarpetta series is mainly a relic of books past." [ 4 ] In Blow Fly, we see a change in narrative style from the first-person narration of Kay herself to a third-person, omniscient, narrator.