From the woman who changed crime fiction... Kay Scarpetta was unlike any detective fiction had seen before: a forensic pathologist who worked not from intuition but from evidence, the science of bodies applied with clinical precision. These novels span the years when Cornwell's command of the character was at its most assured. Each puts Scarpetta under pressure as psychological as procedural.
Patricia Cornwell, 'Point of Origin' - A farmhouse fire betrays a brutal murder while a killer, who wants Scarpetta dead, escapes with revenge on her mind.
Patricia Cornwell, 'Book of the Dead' - Two bodies, two continents, one killer -- and Scarpetta is the only thread connecting them.
Patricia Cornwell, 'Cause of Death' - A routine autopsy reveals a death that isn't accidental, and a web of secrets someone will kill to protect.
