Point of Origin, Patricia Cornwell
Point of Origin, Patricia Cornwell
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Point of Origin

Author: Patricia Cornwell

Narrator: Karen White

Unabridged: 11 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 03/17/2015

Synopsis

This dazzling thriller pits Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta against greater odds than ever before.Convicted serial killer Carrie Grethen has escaped from psychiatric hospital with plans for revenge. Wary and shaken, Scarpetta also has to investigate the death by fire of an unknown woman. The post-mortem reveals that the woman was stabbed before the fire was started, and soon Scarpetta and her colleagues are called out to the scene of another fire and another murder.When her lover Benton Wesley disappears while following up a tip-off, Scarpetta, with sudden appalling clarity, sees that Carrie has set up a scenario in which she has the upper hand and can manipulate them all.

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 James on April 29, 2023

Book Review 3+ of 5 stars to Point of Origin, the 9th thriller in the "Kay Scarpetta" mystery and suspense series by Patricia Cornwell. I enjoyed this book a lot, especially given the focus around Lucy and Benton. Cornwell gives such depth to her characters, you can't help but love and ha......more

Goodreads review by Scott on August 13, 2024

Patricia Cornwell is on fire! Well, not really, but some of the victims in her ninth Kay Scarpetta thriller "Point of Origin" are on fire, and---based on Cornwell's gift for clinically graphic descriptions of murder, torture, and mutilation of human bodies---fire seems like the worst possible way to......more

Goodreads review by Karla on February 21, 2024

Re Read February 2024 Story 4 stars**⬆️ Audio 3.75 stars** Narrator Karen White......more

Goodreads review by Brent on October 16, 2017

This is #9 of Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series and if you have read the previous 8 this one should be very familiar. Now Temple Gault is dead (I think) but Cornwell once again brings back Gault's partner in crime Carrie who also once had thing with Kay's niece Lucy. Carrie it seems has escaped from t......more

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