Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds a body which tells a story of a violent and grisly murder. The fire has come
Point of Origin
โ Scribed by Patricia Cornwell; Joan Allen
- Publisher
- HACHETTE AUDIO
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 190 KB
- Edition
- Abridged Ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 140550272X
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โฆ Synopsis
Includes a free exclusivemultimedia CD, which contains interviews with the author,a screensaver, wallpaper and many more featuresCarrie Grethen, partner in crime to William Temple Gault,has escaped from prison. Before she does so she sendsKay Scarpetta a message which makes it all too clear thatshe blames her for Gault's death, and has specific - ifcryptic - plans for revenge. Wary and quite shaken,Scarpetta still has to get on with an investigation intothe death of an unknown female in a fire which hasdestroyed the isolated farmhouse home of her erstwhilepolitical boss. The post mortem reveals that the womanwas stabbed before the fire was started, but whileScarpetta and her colleagues are puzzling over means andmotive they are called out to the scene of another fireand another murder. The pattern is the same, the answersas elusive -- and then Benton disappears while followingup a tip-off. With appalling clarity, Scarpetta seesthat Carrie has set up a scenario in which she canmanipulate them all and in which she appears to have thelethal upper hand.
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