Postmortem
A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedroom. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical officer, is awakened at 2.33...
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A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedroom. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical officer, is awakened at 2.33 am, she knows the news is bad: there is a fourth victim. And she fears now for those that will follow unless she can dig up new forensic evidence to aid the police. But not everyone is pleased to see a woman in this powerful job. Someone may even want to ruin her career and reputation ...
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Format: papier
Edition language: English
I was only made aware of Cornwell's existence sometime last year. But I didn't consider trying her books until this month when I was wandering through my local library trying to find a fiction book to check out. I'd already skimmed through her Twitter and noted she spent a lot of time getting hands ...
4.25Ok, that book was a very pleasant surprise and I find the fact that it has been written in 1990 one of the pluses I got reading it for the first time in 2016, because It was such a true and real journey to the past. This book was quite a thrilling detective story. I am a fan of Keith McCarthy an...
This was a hard, dark gritty tale and the beginning of a long series. Kay is an odd woman to me hard one minute and being a kid when dealing with her mom. Her partner Pete Marino easily is the character that will cause me to come back to the series.
bookshelves: published-1990, series, mystery-thriller, autumn-2012, serial-killer, north-americas, hackers-and-computers, library-in-norway Read from November 04 to 05, 2012 The blurb: The Scarpetta novels include a great deal of detail on forensic science. The initial resolution to the mystery ...
Cornwell has worked as a crime reporter and for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia, so she certainly has the background to bring a sense of authenticity to her medical examiner heroine and first person narrator, Kay Scarpetta. Indeed, I think its the details of this world that rais...
9 years ago
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