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ISBN: 0316644404
Author: Patricia Cornwell
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Patricia Cornwell's novels about Kay Scarpetta, forensic pathologist and nemesis of arrogant criminals, have long since become one of those series which admirers buy automatically, knowing and liking what they are going to get. For once, Scarpetta is learning, as well as lecturing, as she finds herself involved with a series of deaths by fire, and a killer who has learned to make her job difficult. The series' running villainess, the charming malign Carrie Grethen, once the lover of Scarpetta's niece, has escaped from custody with vengeance on her mind. Cornwell's own troubles of recent years find an echo in Carrie's media offensive--Holmes never had to cope with Moriarty writing to The Times to say that it was all a frame-up... As always, the strong point of Patricia Cornwell's books is less the plotting than the exposition of technical details. She has the gift of fascinating with apparent trivia--just what are the metal shavings and clumps of ash caught in the victims' hair?--that turn out to lead in to the stuff of nightmares. Cornwell's reinvention of the forensic thriller combines expertise with anger at the inventiveness of human evil. --Roz Kaveney

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About this copy: 1998 1st U.K. ed. Unclipped d/j suffers hint of rubbing and very slight edgewear. Ownership to frontispiece. Internally as new. Tight - unread.

Unnatural ExposureOn the trail of a serial killer, Dr Kay Scarpetta follows the forensic footprints of a victim's life unconvinced that the murder is the work of the same killer. She begins to believe someone is on the point of releasing ...
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Isle Of DogsBe aware: this is not your typical Cornwell novel. Not only is there no Kay Scarpetta, but Isle of Dogs is a comic romp, a real departure for this author. It centres around a couple of characters from past books--police ...
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Body Of EvidenceDr Kay Scarpetta investigates the murder of a young woman who was being stalked ... but then let the killers in!
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The Body FarmBlack Mountain, North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year, if they're unlucky, and where people are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night. But a...
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