Who created the character Kay Scarpetta?
Kay Scarpetta while still consulting for the FBI. Kay Scarpetta Kay Scarpetta is a fictional character and protagonist in a series of crime novels written by Patricia Cornwell (born 1956). She first appears in the 1990 novel "Postmortem". The character was inspired by former Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Marcella Farinelli Fierro, MD (retired). The series is noted for the use of recent forensic technology in Scarpetta's investigations. Dr. Kay Scarpetta was born in Miami, Florida, in 1954. She is of Italian descent on both sides of her family, with the Scarpettas emigrating from Verona, Italy. She is blonde and a sharp dresser,
Kay Scarpetta Mark James, who died in a bombing in a London Tube station (in the novel "Cruel and Unusual") and later Benton Wesley, who was supposedly killed in "Point of Origin" but later reappeared. In 2007's "The Book of the Dead", Scarpetta and Wesley become engaged. By the beginning of 2008's "Scarpetta," Benton and Kay are married. In addition to a large custom-built house that includes a restaurant kitchen, a great room, and a mud room, Scarpetta also drives a new Mercedes, which she replaces often: in one case, after Lucy wrecks it, and in another after it is involved in