Point of Origin (Scarpetta)
by Patricia Cornwell
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Author: Patricia CornwellEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-24
ISBN: 0425222381
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Berkley
Book Reviews of Point of Origin (Scarpetta)
Book Review: Point of Origin to Last Precinct
Summary: 5 Stars
From "Point of Origin" to "Last Precinct" is a wonderful ride. However, I view "Last Precinct" as the last Sharpetta novel worth reading. After that she stops writing in first person, the plot takes an unbelieveable twist, and everything just seems "turning out books to get paid."
NOT to take away from Point of Origin, Black Notice and Last Precinct, a three book trilogy not to be missed! Highly recommended.
Summary of Point of Origin (Scarpetta)
The clues to a series of remorseless killings go up in smoke?and only Kay Scarpetta can find them.
Virginia's chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is getting ready for a romantic holiday with her retired-FBI-profiler boyfriend, Benton Wesley, when she receives a cryptic and foreboding letter: "Hey DOC, Tick Tock, Sawed bone and fire," it begins. Even more creepy, the taunting note has been signed by Carrie Grethen, the psychotic killer Kay helped send to a psychiatric facility for going on a murder spree with Temple Gault in Cornwell's earlier book Body Farm. Benton believes that Grethen--who also happens to be the former lover of Scarpetta's niece Lucy--has big plans for a comeback. And before Kay and Benton can leave for their trip and discuss it further, Scarpetta is called upon to don yet another professional hat, that of a "consulting forensic pathologist" for the federal government. Someone has burned a highfalutin horse ranch and all of its contents, including a human being, to the ground. Worse, Grethen has escaped and is on the loose and closer to Kay and her beloved than she knows. Point of Origin, the ninth Scarpetta thriller, is classic Cornwell: rich with detail and strong dialogue, and doused with harrowing twists.
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