The Bone Bed cover art

The Bone Bed

Scarpetta, Book 20

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

The Bone Bed

By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Lorelei King
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's number-one best-selling crime writer. In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold.

A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind all this? And whom can Scarpetta trust? Her lead investigator Pete Marino and FBI husband Benton Wesley are both unhappy with her because of personnel changes at the CFC, and her niece Lucy has become even more secretive than usual. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own this time - against an enormously powerful and cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.

©2012 Patricia Cornwell (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd. Action & Adventure Crime Thrillers Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Thriller & Suspense Crime Thriller Fiction Suspense

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Murderer's Son cover art
Undercurrents cover art
Probable Cause cover art
A Litter of Bones: A Scottish Crime Thriller cover art
Silvermeadow cover art
That Darkness cover art
The Body in the Marsh cover art
Compelling Evidence & Prime Witness cover art
Monster cover art
The Precipice cover art
Killer Instinct cover art
The Bone Box cover art
The Taken Ones cover art
The Cornish Wedding Murder cover art
Straight Shot cover art
Detective Tom Janssen Hidden Norfolk, Books 1-3 cover art
All stars
Most relevant
Although, the narrator was good, I felt the whole story itself, was too much of science, not much on reality.

Not that good!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I enjoyed the story, which was fairly easy to follow and pick up and put down. No problems, and the narration didn't drive me bonkers which usually happens, but not earth shatteringly riveting.

Good, but not earth shattering

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
excellent as always! I love these books, I find them entertaining and educational. thoroughly enjoyed.

excellent!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Really enjoyed this audiobook. Great story and a nice change of pace from focusing on the jack fielding story line.

Highly recommend 😁

Excellent listen!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Much better than other recent works by same author. Getting back to the quality of storytelling in her early books.



Well narrated as usual by Lorelei King...

Classic Cornwell

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews