- Fiction, Forensic pathologists, Kay Scarpetta (Fictitious character), Medical examiners (Law)
From the author of Unnatural Exposure and Cause of Death comes a new Kay Scarpetta novel that pits Virginia's chief medical examiner against an audacious and wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes. And when Scarpetta learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, is somehow involved, the investigation gets personal and tragedy strikes closer to home.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Patricia Cornwell
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 397
- Publisher
- Berkley, Random House Audio, Chivers Press
- Editions
- 51
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, German
- ISBN
- 9788440693471
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 14 have read it and 21 want to.
- Fiction
- Forensic pathologists
- Kay Scarpetta (Fictitious character)
- Medical examiners (Law)
- Women physicians
- Medical novels
- Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Medical examiners (Law) -- Fiction
- Forensic pathologists -- Fiction
- Women physicians -- Fiction
- Virginia -- Fiction
- Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character)
“BENTON WESLEY WAS taking off his running shoes in my kitchen when I ran to him, my heart tripping over fear and hate and remembered horror.”
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Déjà Dead 199794% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
From Potter's Field 199591% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Chosen Prey 200191% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
The Judge's List 202190% alikeBoth contemporary, classical in form, grave.
Devil Bones 200889% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Unnatural Exposure 199788% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Certain prey 199988% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Long road to mercy 201888% alikeBoth classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Above Suspicion 200989% alikeTelevision · Both classical in form, contemporary, earnest.
Along Came a Spider 200187% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, contemporary, earnest.