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Kay Scarpetta books in order

The 23 books of Kay Scarpetta in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 2 books with page data add up to about 720 pages.

Books in order
23
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
720
sum of medians, 2 books
Reading time
13h
at average speed
  1. 1
    Postmortem
    1990 · 17 editions
    352 pages
    6 h 12 min
  2. 2
    Body of Evidence
    1991 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  3. 3
    All That Remains
    1992 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  4. 5
    The Body Farm
    1994 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  5. 6
    From Potter's Field
    1995 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  6. 7
    Cause of Death
    1996 · 9 editions
    368 pages
    6 h 29 min
  7. 8
    Unnatural Exposure
    1997 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  8. 9
    Point of Origin
    1998 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  9. 10
    Black Notice
    1999 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  10. 11
    The Last Precinct
    2000 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  11. 12
    Blow Fly
    2003 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  12. 13
    Trace
    2004 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
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  13. 14
    Predator
    2005 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
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  14. 15
    Book of the Dead
    2007 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
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  15. 16
    Scarpetta
    2008 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
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  16. 17
    The Scarpetta Factor
    2009 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
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  17. 18
    Port Mortuary
    2010 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
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  18. 19
    Red Mist
    2011 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
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  19. 20
    The Bone Bed
    2012 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
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  20. 21
    Dust
    2013 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
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  21. 22
    Flesh and blood
    2014 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  22. 23
    Depraved Heart
    2015 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
    –
  23. 24
    Chaos
    2016 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
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Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. Postmortem3527. Cause of Death368
1. Postmortem3527. Cause of Death368
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 720 pages for the 2 books with page data.

Reading time
12 h 42 min
At 30 min a day
26 days
At 1 hour a day
13 days
Order follows the series number recorded on Wikidata. Novellas numbered with decimals (for example 2.5) sit between the main books.

Data: Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors); Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).