- Kay Scarpetta
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If you are wondering who she is, Kay Scarpetta is a female heroine in some of Patricia Cornwell’s books. Click here to know the books where she is the heroine. In more ways than one, she is almost human, not just a character in books.You can either love her or not. She has endearing characteristics that may make you want her to be your friend. But if circumstances are turned, you wouldn’t want her to be your enemy. She is a caring and no-nonsense forensic pathologist. She is after all the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia. And she consults with the FBI. She feels for her patients, meaning the dead bodies in the morgue that she investigates or works on. She is thorough and will leave no stones unturned so to speak, to be able to check details that will lead to the identity of whoever caused the death of the person she is working on. She is perceptive. She has quit smoking. She fights with her sister. She loves her niece, Lucy, who is a computer genius. She works during unholy hours and wouldn’t stop unless there is some kind of a closure. Her buddy is a police officer named Pete Marino fighting obesity and excessive smoking and accused as not being culturally diversed (read: redneck). She is having a secret affair (aren’t they all supposed to be secret) with Benton Wesley, a very intelligent FBI profiler who is married to his wife for 25 years.
These, more or less, appear in the novels where she is the heroine.
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