Trace by Patricia Cornwell

Trace by Patricia Cornwell

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 Lucy's operatives was attacked. It is not only a forensic puzzle, but opens up the probability that someone is after those closest to Scarpetta.

'When she is this good, she is hard to beat' New Statesman 'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns.' Mirror

Since the first novel was published in 1990, Patricia Cornwell and her creation, Kay Scarpetta, have become household names and she has earned widespread critical acclaim. She helped to establish the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine and serves as Chairman of the Board.

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ISBN 13	9780751530773
ISBN 10	0751530778
Title	Trace
Author	Patricia Cornwell
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2005-04-25
Number of pages	496
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