18 books like Body Double

What to read after Body Double — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

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: Detective Rizzoli, Forensic pathologists, Women physicians, Serial murder investigation

The Surgeon Tess Gerritsen · 2001 · ★ 3.8 · 382p · ≈ 12h · Moderate If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. The terrifying first Jane Rizzoli bestseller.In Boston, there's a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs terrifying ritualistic acts of torture on them before finishing them off. His surgical skills lead police to suspect he is a physician – a physician who, instead of saving lives, takes them.But as… Shares: Detective Rizzoli, Forensic pathologists, Serial murder investigation, Women detectives

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: Forensic pathologists, Women physicians, Serial murder investigation, Women detectives

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: Forensic pathologists, Women physicians, Women detectives, Crimes against

The Girls Lori Lansens · 2005 · ★ 3.5 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate 'I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to a beguiling moon. I've never used an aeroplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that...So many things I've never done, but oh, how I've been loved. And, if such things were to be, I'd live a thousand times as me, to be loved so exponentially' The girls,… Shares: Adoptees, Twins, Sisters, Psychological fiction

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, Crimes against, Thriller

The Mephisto Club Tess Gerritsen · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 379p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman’s brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It’s a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O’Donnell–Jane’s professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club. On top of Beacon Hill, the… Shares: Detective Rizzoli, Serial murder investigation, Thriller

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: Forensic pathologists, Women physicians, Women detectives, Thriller

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: Forensic pathologists, Women physicians, Women detectives, Thriller

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: Forensic pathologists, Women physicians, Women detectives, Thriller

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: Forensic pathologists, Women physicians, Women detectives

All That Remains Patricia Cornwell · 1992 · ★ 4.3 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Pathologist Kay Scarpetta searches for the cause of death in the case of five young couples whose decomposed bodies are found without shoes and socks deep in the woods. Bones, fragments of clothing, and a jack of hearts are all that remain. Shares: Forensic pathologists, Women physicians, Women detectives, Thriller

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: Forensic pathologists, Women physicians, Thriller

In the Woods Tana French · 2001 · ★ 3.9 · 608p · ≈ 20h · Moderate A gorgeously written novel that marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspenseAs dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing… Shares: Women detectives, Psychological fiction, Crimes against, Thriller

The Vanished Man Jeffery Deaver · 2003 · ★ 4.1 · 511p · ≈ 17h · Moderate "It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. When a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot, they break down the door. The room is empty." "Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving… Shares: Forensic pathologists, Serial murder investigation

Vanish (Jane Rizzoli, Book 5) Tess Gerritsen · 2005 · ★ 4.5 · 355p · ≈ 11h · Moderate If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. A chilling Rizzoli and Isles thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.The beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. But when medical examiner Maura Isles looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life.The corpse opens its eyes.Now very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where she murders a security… Shares: Detective Rizzoli, Women detectives, Thriller

Blood ties Nicholas Guild · 2015 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Homicide detective Ellen Ridley of the SFPD is tracking a serial killer terrorizing young women in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ridley is sure she's cornered her most likely suspect: Stephen Tregear, a hacker and code breaker who works for U.S. Naval Intelligence. But Tregear is not the killer ... he's the killer's son. Ridley and Tregear team up to look for Tregear's father, Walter, in an… Shares: Serial murder investigation, Women detectives, Thriller

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: Forensic pathologists, Women physicians, Thriller

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