Imagined crossover · Forensics and profilers
What if Maura Isles met Kay Scarpetta?
The medical examiners. Two meticulous, brilliant pathologists who speak for the dead.
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The pair
Kay ScarpettaChief medical examiner and forensic pathologistBy Patricia Cornwell · Kay Scarpetta · first in Postmortem
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Where and when
Boston and Cambridge
The 2010s
The story
- How they might meet
- A body found on the Charles River falls between two jurisdictions, and both chief medical examiners claim the autopsy.
- Why they would work
- Two meticulous, brilliant pathologists who speak for the dead.
- What each brings
- Maura is precise, rational and calm. Kay is experienced, determined and has a lifetime of difficult cases behind her.
- Where they would clash
- Two queens of the morgue with very firm ideas about procedure.
Strengths compared
Maura Isles Kay Scarpetta
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On the page together
The years in which each character's books were published.
Read your way in
Start with each character's first appearance.
- The ApprenticeTess Gerritsen · 2002 · Maura Isles's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
- PostmortemPatricia Cornwell · 1990 · Kay Scarpetta's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
