Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence (USA 2020)

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell's classic forensic thriller, featuring gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.
A reclusive author, Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls -- or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic evidence -- while unwittingly edging closer to a killer waiting in the shadows.

Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence. A Scarpetta Novel. Pocket Books, ISBN: 9781982153915 (December, 2020), 438 p., $9.99.

Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence (USA 2011)

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this suspense fiction classic.

Reclusive author Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls -- or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic evidence -- while unwittingly edging closer to a killer waiting in the shadows....

Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence. Pocket Books, ISBN: 9781439135716 (June, 2011), 438 p., $9.99.

Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence (UK 2011)

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A reclusive writer is dead. And her final manuscript has disappeared...
Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West - but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in...

Thus begins for Dr Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre. Why would Beryl open the door to someone who brutally slashed and then nearly decapitated her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with a prize-winning author and the disappearance of her own manuscript. As Scarpetta retraces Beryl's footsteps, an investigation that begins in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads her deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own.

Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence. Sphere, ISBN: 9780751544435 (January, 2011), 406 p., £7.99.

Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence (USA 2004)

From the Publisher:
#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this suspense fiction classic.

BODY OF EVIDENCE
Reclusive author Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls -- or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic evidence -- while unwittingly edging closer to a killer waiting in the shadows... .

"CORNWELL HAS THE MILIEU AND THE FACTS DOWN COLD... A COMPLEX STORY THAT WENDS A DEVIOUS PATH THROUGH DARK SPACES WHERE CORPSES ARE DISCOVERED AT PRACTICALLY EVERY TURN." -- The Los Angeles Daily News

"TAKES THE READER INTO THE FASCINATING WORLD OF THE FORENSIC CRIME LAB... A COMPLEX, MULTI-LAYERED NOVEL WITH ENOUGH TWISTS AND TURNS FOR TWO BOOKS." -- The Washington Post Book World

Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence. A Scarpetta Novel. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0743493915 (November, 2004), 416 p., $7.99.

Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence (UK 2004)

From the Publisher:
A reclusive writer is dead. And her final manuscript has disappeared...
Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West - but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in...

Thus begins for Dr Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre. Why would Beryl open the door to someone who brutally slashed and then nearly decapitated her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with a prize-winning author and the disappearance of her own manuscript.

As Scarpetta retraces Beryl's footsteps, an investigation that begins in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads her deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own.

Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence. A Scarpetta Novel. Time Warner Paperbacks, ISBN: 0751530425 (Januar, 2004), 387 p., £6.99.

Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this suspense fiction classic.
BODY OF EVIDENCE
Reclusive author Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls -- or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic evidence -- while unwittingly edging closer to a killer waiting in the shadows...

Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0671038567 (May, 1999), 416 p., 7.99.

Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence (UK 1993)

From the Publisher:
Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls.
Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West - but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in...

Thus begins for Dr Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre. Why would Beryl open the door to someone who brutally slashed and then nearly decapitated her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with a prize-winning author and the disappearance of her own manuscript.

As Scarpetta retraces Beryl's footsteps, an investigation that begins in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads her deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own.

'Cornwell is the one to beat when it comes to slick, speedy chillers' -- Sunday Telegraph
'Another cracker of a read... Body of Evidence vaults her into the top echelon of modern thriller writers' I-- rish Times

Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence. Warner Books, ISBN: 0751505129 (July, 1993), 387 p., £5.99 (?).

Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence (USA 1992)

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"NERVE-JANGLING... VERVE AND BRILLIANCE... HIGH DRAMA... MS. CORNWELL FABRICATES INTRICATE PLOTS AND PACES THE ACTION AT AN ANKLE-TURNING CLIP." -- The New York Times Book Review

"EXCELLENT... COMPELLING... In BODY OF EVIDENCE Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta must deal with a deranged killer who stalks and murders a noted historical novelist and then seems to be working back through the novelist's past... SCARPETTA IS MUCH MORE THAN A FEMALE 'QUINCY,' AND CORNWELL IS THE PERFECT MATCH FOR HER." -- Chicago Tribune

"CORNWELL HAS THE MILIEU AND THE FACTS DOWN COLD... A COMPLEX MYSTERY THAT WENDS A DEVIOUS PATH THROUGH DARK SPACES WHERE CORPSES ARE DISCOVERED AT PRACTICALLY EVERY TURN." -- Los Angeles Daily News

"TAKES THE READER INTO THE FASCINATING WORLD OF THE FORENSIC CRIME LAB... A COMPLEX, MULTI-LAYERED NOVEL WITH ENOUGH TWISTS AND TURNS FOR TWO BOOKS." -- Washington Post Book World

FROM THE EDGAR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF POSTMORTEM

Patricia Cornwell: Body of Evidence. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380717018 (April, 1992), 401 p., $5.99.

Patricia D. Cornwell: Body of Evidence (USA 1991)

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Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone calls to the reclusive author. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West. But, eventually, she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in...Los Angeles Times

Thus begins for Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre. Why would Beryl open the door to someone who brutally slashed and then nearly decapitated her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and the disappearance of Beryl's manuscript. Pressure from Beryl's agent and the attorney general, as well as the mysterious reappearance of Scarpetta's former lover, lawyer Mark James, force her beyond the boundaries of forensic medicine. She must retrace Beryl's footsteps. An investigation that begins in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads Scarpetta deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own.

With this novel, Patricia D. Cornwell takes her rightful place as 'Mistress of Mystery' (Los Angeles Times). Finely crafted, rich in character and suspense, Body of Evidence is a stunning achievement from a superbly talented author.

Patricia D. Cornwell: Body of Evidence. A Novel. Scribner, ISBN: 0684192403 (January, 1991), 387 p., $18.95.