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A farmhouse destroyed by fire. A body amongst the ruins. 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 at the same time as another, even more incendiary horror: Carrie Grethen, a killer who nearly destroyed the lives of Scarpetta and those closest to her, has escaped from a forensic psychiatric hospital. Her whereabouts is unknown, but her ultimate destination is not, for Carrie has begun to communicate with Scarpetta, conveying her deadly - if cryptic - plans for revenge. Chillingly mesmeric in tone, labyrinthine in structure, POINT OF ORIGIN is Patricia Cornwell at her most dazzling. For more about Patricia Cornwell and her books visit her website on www.patricia-cornwell.com

ISBN 0751530484   Pages 440 ISBN13 9780751530483 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 233 Publisher Little, Brown Book Group   Published in London Imprint Sphere   Series editor Varey, J.E. Format Paperback   Series ISSN 0959-948 Publication date 18 May 2000   Series title Dr Kay Scarpetta Reissue date 30 Jan 2004   Previous ISBN 9780751523225 Non-book description Re-numbered item (originally 0751523224)   Height (mm) 176 DEWEY 813.54   Width (mm) 109 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

'Imitators abound, but - pathologically speaking - nobody does it like Cornwell' Literary Review 'The pathology is fascinating, as is the sinister atmosphere generated by Cornwell's cruel prose' Harpers and Queen 'The bleakest - and the best - of Cornwell's novels' Guardian

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