Trace. The New Scarpetta Novel

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Little Brown
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: Reprint

Description: 405 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. A Stunning Exercise In Psychology And Suspense, Accompanied By A Dazzling Display Of Detail. Trace Provides Blinding Evidence Of Cornwell At Her Best.

Publishers Description: Dr Kay Scarpetta - the worlds most popular female investigator - returns in another breath-takingly taut novel. Since POSTMORTEM garnered critical acclaim and a record-breaking five awards for a first crime novel, the Scarpetta novels have often been imitated, but never bettered. Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece, Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on a case involving the death of a fourteen-year-old girl. Accompanied by Pete Marino she finds the once familiar territory of her morgue and her department much changed, and the new Chief Medical Examiner treats her with disdain despite the obvious fact that he is in desperate need of her expertise. But professional as ever, she re-examines the evidence and proves the girl was murdered. She also finds trace evidence which matches that found on an accident victim and at the scene where one of Lucys operatives was attacked. It is not only a forensic puzzle, but opens up the probability that someone is after those closest to Scarpetta.

ISBN: 9780316854733