The Recurring Cast
Character · Scarpetta and her circle · 15 books

Rose

Scarpetta’s secretary · Patricia Cornwell

Rose is Scarpetta’s loyal secretary in Richmond.

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Character facts

First appearance
Postmortem (1990)
Latest appearance
Book of the Dead (2007)
Books
15 (15 minor)
Series
Kay Scarpetta
Author
Patricia Cornwell
Circle
Scarpetta and her circle

Where to meet Rose

Rose first appears in Postmortem (1990), in a minor role, book 1 of the Kay Scarpetta series.

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Every book with Rose

In publication order, with the size of their role in each.

  1. 1990·Postmortemminor role · Kay ScarpettaBuy
  2. 1991·Body of Evidenceminor role · Kay ScarpettaBuy
  3. 1992·All That Remainsminor role · Kay ScarpettaBuy
  4. 1993·Cruel and Unusualminor role · Kay ScarpettaBuy
  5. 1994·The Body Farmminor role · Kay ScarpettaBuy
  6. 1995·From Potter’s Fieldminor role · Kay ScarpettaBuy
  7. 1996·Cause of Deathminor role · Kay ScarpettaBuy
  8. 1997·Unnatural Exposureminor role · Kay ScarpettaBuy
  9. 1998·Point of Originminor role · Kay ScarpettaBuy
  10. 1999·Black Noticeminor role · Kay ScarpettaBuy
  11. 2000·The Last Precinctminor role · Kay ScarpettaBuy
  12. 2003·Blow Flyminor role · Kay ScarpettaBuy
  13. 2004·Traceminor role · Kay ScarpettaBuy
  14. 2005·Predatorminor role · Kay ScarpettaBuy
  15. 2007·Book of the Deadminor role · Kay ScarpettaBuy

Appears most often with

CharacterBooks together
Benton WesleyFBI profiler and Scarpetta’s partner, later husband15
Kay ScarpettaChief medical examiner and forensic pathologist15
Lucy FarinelliScarpetta’s niece, a computer and weapons specialist15
Pete MarinoDetective, later Scarpetta’s investigator15
Jean-Baptiste ChandonneSerial killer known as the Wolfman3
Temple GaultSerial killer3