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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.
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Point Of Origin, Patricia Cornwell
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- Released
- 2002
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- Title
- Point Of Origin
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Patricia Cornwell
- Publisher
- The Warner paperbacks
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 440
- ISBN10
- 0751530484
- ISBN13
- 9780751530483
- Series
- Kay Scarpetta
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Thriller, Suspense, USA, Murders, American Literature, Detective Fiction, Crime Series, Serial killers, FBI, Pathology
- First published
- 1998
- Original title
- Point of origin
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
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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.