Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

by Patricia Cornwell

A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedroom. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical officer, is awakened at 2.33 am, she knows the news is bad: there is a fourth victim. And she fears now for those that will follow unless she can dig up new forensic evidence to aid the police. But not everyone is pleased to see a woman in this powerful job. Someone may even want to ruin her career and reputation ...

• ISBN10: 0356190730
• ISBN13: 9780356190730
• Publish Date: 13 September 1990 (first published 9 February 1990)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 3 March 2010
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: Little, Brown
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 640
• Language: English

Reviews

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After reading a bunch of her later books, I finally read this first one. And felt like I had read it before. The entire thing felt familiar, but I’m sure I haven’t read it. And I felt like there was backstory I was missing, like maybe this wasn’t the first book, after all. But, overall, another good one from Cornwell. I can’t argue with a decent whodunit cop story complete with autopsies, right?