18 books like All That Remains

What to read after All That Remains — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Body of Evidence Patricia Cornwell · 1990 · ★ 4.0 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of Beryl Madison, an author, whose latest manuscript is now missing. Shares: Fiction - Mystery, Scarpetta, Kay Scarpetta, Medical examiners

Point of Origin Patricia Cornwell · 1998 · ★ 4.4 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Moderate From the author of Unnatural Exposure and Cause of Death comes a new Kay Scarpetta novel that pits Virginia's chief medical examiner against an audacious and wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes. And when Scarpetta learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, is somehow involved, the investigation gets personal and tragedy strikes closer to home. Shares: Scarpetta, Kay Scarpetta, Medical examiners, Virginia

Cause of Death Patricia Cornwell · 1995 · ★ 4.0 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Moderate El cadáver de Theodore Andrew Edding ha aparecido bajo el agua, tras una supuesta sesión de inmersión. La forense Kay Scarpetta se encarga del caso y empieza a recibir llamadas telefónicas con identidades falsas, al tiempo que se producen comportamientos sospechosos por parte de sus colegas, intrigantes visitas nocturnas y molestos sabotajes. Ante esta situación, a Scarpetta no le queda más… Shares: Scarpetta, Kay Scarpetta, Medical examiners, Virginia

The Scarpetta Factor Patricia Cornwell · 2008 · ★ 3.8 · 495p · ≈ 16h · Moderate It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta – despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN – to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. In no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of unexpected and unsettling events. She is asked live on the… Shares: Scarpetta, Kay Scarpetta, Medical examiners, Forensic pathologists

Blow Fly Patricia Cornwell · 2001 · ★ 3.8 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Dr. Scarpetta is no longer Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner so she packs up and heads for Florida. She must unravel a twisted conspiracy with an international reach that will force her to question the loyalty and trust of all she holds dear. Shares: Scarpetta, Medical fiction, Kay Scarpetta, Medical examiners

Postmortem Patricia Cornwell · 1990 · ★ 4.0 · 379p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A killer is stalking the streets of Richmond, Virginia. When the bodies begin to mount, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is pulled into a chilling investigation that blends high-stakes forensics with psychological warfare. Armed with cutting-edge science and unflinching resolve, Scarpetta must navigate hostile forces both inside and outside the investigation—because someone isn’t just trying… Shares: Medical fiction, Kay Scarpetta, Medical examiners, Forensic pathologists

Predator Patricia Cornwell · 1742 · ★ 3.9 · 445p · ≈ 14h · Demanding Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowbound Boston; one that at first appears as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team -- Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli -- to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and… Shares: Scarpetta, Kay Scarpetta, Forensic pathologists, Women physicians

Book of the Dead Patricia Cornwell · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate From America's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel.The "Book of the Dead" is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace-not only personally and… Shares: Scarpetta, Kay Scarpetta, Medical examiners, Forensic pathologists

Port Mortuary Patricia Cornwell · 2010 · ★ 3.5 · 509p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice. A young man drops dead, apparently from a heart condition, eerily close to Scarpetta's home. But when his body is examined the next… Shares: Scarpetta, Kay Scarpetta, Medical examiners, Forensic pathologists

Depraved Heart Patricia Cornwell · 2015 · ★ 4.0 · 466p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. As Scarpetta watches, she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she… Shares: Scarpetta, Kay Scarpetta, Forensic pathologists, Thriller

Trace Patricia Cornwell · 1529 · ★ 3.8 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Demanding Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago.In Trace, Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in… Shares: Kay Scarpetta, Forensic pathologists, Women physicians, Women detectives

The Sinner Tess Gerritsen · 2003 · ★ 4.4 · 355p · ≈ 11h · Moderate From the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Apprentice comes a chilling new novel of suspense featuring Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles, on the deadly trail of an anonymous madman who's committed an unholy crime....THE SINNERNot even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered in the early morning hours… Shares: Medical examiners, Forensic pathologists, Women physicians, Women detectives

The Bone Garden Tess Gerritsen · 2007 · ★ 4.4 · 528p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Unknown bones, untold secrets, and unsolved crimes from the distant past cast ominous shadows on the present in the dazzling new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil--human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston… Shares: Medical examiners, Forensic pathologists, Serial murders, Thriller

Flesh and Blood Patricia Cornwell · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday, and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids' game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there's been a homicide five minutes… Shares: Kay Scarpetta, Medical examiners, Forensic pathologists, Thriller

Devil-may-care Elizabeth Peters · 1977 · ★ 3.5 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Ellie is young, rich, engaged and in love. These are the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, and anything goes --including house-sitting at eccentric Aunt Kate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. Ellie feels right at home here with the nearly invisible housekeepers and the plethora of pets, but she soon realizes that there are disturbing secrets about the local aristocracy… Shares: Virginia, Mystery

Faithless Karin Slaughter · 2005 · ★ 4.5 · 548p · ≈ 18h · Moderate "Brilliant plotting, relentless suspense," raved the Washington Post. "A new synonym for terror," crowned the Detroit Free Press. The critics agree: no one writes suspense like Karin Slaughter, whose thrillers featuring medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, have propelled her to the top of bestseller lists the world over. Now Slaughter fuses her… Shares: Forensic pathologists, Women physicians, Thriller, Mystery

Killing Time Linda Howard · 2005 · ★ 4.3 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Returning to the entrancing supernatural territory of her popular novels Dream Man and Son of the Morning, New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard has written a sizzling new novel that is her most daring, exciting, and original yet. In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years… Shares: Women detectives, Serial murders, Thriller, Mystery

Body Double Tess Gerritsen · 2004 · ★ 3.5 · 358p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles literally meets her match--and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations--in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner.Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan city, she has seen more than her share of corpses… Shares: Forensic pathologists, Women physicians, Women detectives, Thriller

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