- Fiction, Medical examiners (Law), Kay Scarpetta (Fictitious character), Serial murders
Pathologist Kay Scarpetta searches for the cause of death in the case of five young couples whose decomposed bodies are found without shoes and socks deep in the woods. Bones, fragments of clothing, and a jack of hearts are all that remain.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Patricia Cornwell
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 399
- Publisher
- Librairie des Champs-Elysées, Scribners, Warner Books
- Editions
- 53
- Language
- Spanish, und, French, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780751544480
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- Fiction
- Medical examiners (Law)
- Kay Scarpetta (Fictitious character)
- Serial murders
- Women physicians
- Forensic pathologists
- Women detectives
- Medical fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character)
- Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
- Scarpetta, kay (fictitious character), fiction
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