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Maybe the starting point???? Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

Scarpetta - Dr. Kay Scarpetta is best known as the beautiful blonde Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia at Richmond. She is also known as one of the top forensic pathologists in the country. Along the way, the series also features FBI profiler Benton Wesley, Kay’s genius niece Lucy Farinelli, and the unhealthy and balding homicide detective, Pete Marino.

The Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell features 28 books - currently - starting in 1990. There is two seasons currently in production - with 7 episodes the first year. The second season is in production. There is no release date for this title yet.

I have no idea where this series is going to start within the 28 books. But there is a great line up of actors - Nicole Kidman as Kay Scarpetta, Jamie Lee Curtis as Dorothy Farinelli and Bobby Cannavale as Pete Marino.

a list of the Scarpetta books
https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/pat...

The first book in the series, Postmortem, features this heroine in the same line of work as Cornwell, inspired by her career. The book begins with Scarpetta getting called in to a gruesome hanging in Richmond, Virginia where she is a medical examiner.

There are only a few clues left behind, including a strange smell, semen, and and a strange substance. The book makes a reference to DNA profiling which is a new practice. In addition to her job, Scarpetta must retain guardianship over her ten year old niece, Lucy.

IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14786934...

There is no release date for this title yet. I will keep looking...

Filming of the first season is done - so far they have 2 seasons planned. This is the third attempt to bring this series to the screen - a couple years after the first book was published, there was some talk about Demi Moore taking on the role, and about 15 years ago, they were going to do a movie with Angelina Jolie starring.
Don't know why, but tho there have been successes with series like Rizzoli and Isles, and Bones, it has been hard to get some of these major series to the screen. The VI Warshawski was supposed to be a franchise I think but was only the one movie and there were a couple attempts to do the Stephanie Plum character that got not traction, A&E optioned the Kinsey Milhone books (the alphabet series) a few years ago but I don't think it's gone far and I even heard some years ago there was interest in Laurie King's Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series, which also fizzled out.

Thanks Barb for the update.

Not much change on IMDb...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14786934...

...other than this will show on Prime and the first season has 8 episodes and they are going right into filming season two.

I see no release date yet.

Here is an article I found...
https://movieweb.com/jamie-lee-curtis...

A piece of trivia
The show just added Charlie B. Foster to the cast. Jodie Foster’s son will be portraying the recurring character, Wingo, who is a morgue assistant, on the crime drama.

Still no changes that I can find - no release date yet.