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THE THRILLING NEW KAY SCARPETTA MYSTERY FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER
Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had an intense love affair with Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship.
The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano’s skin is strangely red. Scarpetta’s niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead’s secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue.
As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces, and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that, in her mind, is far more evil . . .
Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had an intense love affair with Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship.
The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano’s skin is strangely red. Scarpetta’s niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead’s secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue.
As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces, and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that, in her mind, is far more evil . . .
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Reviews
Cutting-edge
A pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thriller
One of the all-time greats of this genre
Thirty years on, there's still no other crime writer like her
The queen of the forensic thriller
The top gun in this field
A chilling, thrilling, macabre masterpiece. Unnatural Death is Patricia Cornwell at her mesmerising finest. The best just got better
Classic Cornwell with an up-to-the-minute twenty-first-century plot - an intoxicating blend that proves Scarpetta is still queen of the autopsy and Cornwell is still queen of crime fiction. An utterly thrilling roller coaster ride
Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns
PRAISE FOR UNNATURAL DEATH
An especially good entry in the series
Slick, fast-paced and brilliant
One of the best crime writers writing today
America's most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction
Sinister, surprising and utterly unputdownable. Cornwell at her brilliant best
PRAISE FOR PATRICIA CORNWELL
PRAISE FOR PATRICIA CORNWELL
One of the best crime writers writing today
Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns
Astonishing . . . Thirty years on, there's still no other crime writer like her
Cornwell really is in a league of her own
When it comes to forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell
America's most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction
The queen of the forensic thriller
The Agatha Christie of the DNA age
The top gun in this field
The Agatha Christie of the DNA age
