Dr. Kay Scarpetta isn’t done tracking down killers. The brilliant forensic pathologist who has starred in 29 of Patricia Cornwell’s thrilling crime novels is now the star of her own murder-mystery series, which premiered in March 2026 and is already coming back for more.
Prime Video’s Scarpetta features Nicole Kidman as Kay alongside an A-list cast that includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Bobby Cannavale, Simon Baker, and Ariana DeBose. And because the season 1 story unfolded across two timelines—adapting Cornwell’s first Scarpetta novel, 1990’s Postmortem, and 2021’s Autopsy—a younger ensemble (including Rosy McEwen and Jake Cannavale) played the same characters in 1998.
