Body of Evidence, Patricia Cornwell
Body of Evidence, Patricia Cornwell
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Body of Evidence

Author: Patricia Cornwell

Narrator: C. J. Critt

Unabridged: 12 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/29/1994

Synopsis

Late one night Beryl Madison turns off her burglar alarm, puts down her gun and opens her door to the man who has stalked and terrorized her for months. Hours later, her brutally mutilated body lies in the city morgue. As Scarpetta begins searching for the microscopic clues to the killer’s identity, one question keeps nagging her: why did Beryl let him in?

About Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell is a Miami born, contemporary crime novelist. Her books usually feature the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who is a medical examiner. After a way sad childhood, Cornwall graduated from Davidson College with a degree in English. She wrote a biography of a family friend entitled, “A Time for Remembering”, then renamed “Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham” in 1983. After working in a Virginia medical examiners for six years, she wrote the first installment of her “Scarpetta” series entitled “Postmortem”. Her six year job was valuable in including a lot of forensic science details in her “Scarpetta” series. Her novels are considered to have influenced the creation of the TV series on forensics such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Cold Case. In the same vein Cornwell made a brief appearance on the Criminal Minds episode “True Genius”, as herself.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kylie on June 04, 2019

An enjoyable book that sees Kay Scarpetta looking for the killer of a young author. The author was working on her memoirs, but the potentially explosive manuscript goes missing, and several high profile people are invested in finding, and hiding, it's whereabouts. As the body count starts to climb,......more

Goodreads review by James on April 29, 2023

I was such a gruesome kid... in that I loved to read this series. Blood never bothered me, and the more psychopaths you throw at me, the happier of a reader I am. I think I learned some anatomy from this book. :) The descriptions are vivid, not for the faint-hearted. Hits close to him when it's about......more

Goodreads review by Baba on February 14, 2022

My previous read was the first in this series, and I went straight on to reading this book, the second in the Kay Scarpetta series. This time a stalked romance writer somehow agrees to open the door the door to the seemingly deranged person that killed her. A missing manuscript causes further troubl......more

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache on November 15, 2022

Patricia Cornwell’s Second Kay Scarpetta novel, Body of Evidence is a suspense-laden thriller which has Scarpetta investigating the murder of an author. There is intrigue involving the search for the author’s final manuscript that has been hidden by the author just before dying. The manuscript suppo......more

Goodreads review by Jess☺️ on November 12, 2020

Body Of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell is book 2 in the Dr Kay Scarpetta series, I can't believe that it actually took so long to pick up this series and I'm definitely enjoying it so far. I love the whole build up throughout and even the quick face off with the killer at the end, this book definitely......more

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