- Fiction, Forensic pathologists, Kay Scarpetta (Fictitious character), Medical examiners (Law)
In Richmond, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner of Virginia and consultant for the FBI, is in the midst of a late-night autopsy at the morgue when the call comes: Gault, the sadistic psychopath who has eluded capture for years, has struck again.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Patricia Cornwell
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 393
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Berkley, Chivers Press
- Editions
- 67
- Language
- Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9781439104798
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- Fiction
- Forensic pathologists
- Kay Scarpetta (Fictitious character)
- Medical examiners (Law)
- Women detectives
- Women physicians
- Detective and mystery stories
- Medical fiction
- Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character)
- Scarpetta, kay (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
- Virginia, fiction
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