The other big Cornwell-approved idea that's baked into Scarpetta 's eight-episode first season is Sarnoff's decision to have Kay's past live alongside her present. The overarching narrative arc finds Scarpetta on the trail of a murderer whose M.O. is disturbingly close to a case she worked decades prior at the start of her career.

Scarpetta has been one of the biggest names in crime fiction for more than three decades. Yet the famous medical examiner only just made it to television. Patricia Cornwell first introduced Dr.

Exclusive: One of the stars of Prime Video's Scarpetta explains how the new crime series is adapting the 29-book franchise it's based on.

Saloni Gajjar of AV Club gives it a D, saying Scarpetta marks a low point on Nicole Kidman’s journey of increasingly substandard dramas. The series is a “hot mess,” Gajjar writes, and feels more like “one of those fake shows used as punchlines in 30 Rock and Insecure .” Gajjar continues:

Based on Patricia Cornwell's novels, the series also stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana DeBose, Bobby Cannavale, Simon Baker, Rosy McEwen and Jake Cannavale.

Nicole Kidman plays Dr Kay Scarpetta in the new series.

The first season of Scarpetta ended with quite the finale and fans are already asking if Scarpetta Season 2 is on the way.

The tone of "Scarpetta" is set with the bodies. Naked, bloody, trussed and horrifying, the nauseating and disturbing display of the murder victims in Amazon's adaptation of author Patricia Cornwell's best-selling crime novels preview a series that will not ...