Unnatural Death: The gripping new Kay Scarpetta thriller

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THE BREATHTAKING NEW KAY SCARPETTA THRILLER FROM THE 120-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER

The morning after North Virginia's deadliest Halloween on record, forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta is pulled away from her caseload to investigate a chilling crime.

She arrives in the wilderness to find one body floating in the lake, and another twenty feet down an abandoned mineshaft - both mutilated almost beyond recognition. It can be no coincidence that the couple were killed on the verge of their arrest for cybercrimes.

After the most terrifying body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why.

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PRAISE FOR PATRICIA CORNWELL * - *
One of the best crime writers writing today * GUARDIAN *
Astonishing . . . Thirty years on, there's still no other crime writer like her * SUNDAY TIMES *
The top gun in this field * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
America's most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction * THE TIMES *
Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns * MIRROR *
A pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thriller * BBC *
The Agatha Christie of the DNA age * EXPRESS *
The queen of the forensic thriller * MAIL ON SUNDAY *
Cutting-edge * SUN *
When it comes to forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW *
Slick, fast-paced and brilliant * HEAT *

Author Bio

In 1990, Patricia Cornwell sold her first novel, Postmortem, while working at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. An auspicious debut, it went on to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity Awards, as well as the French Prix du Roman d'Aventures - the first book ever to claim all these distinctions in a single year. Growing into an international phenomenon, the Scarpetta series won Cornwell the Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author, the Gold Dagger Award, the RBA Thriller Award, and the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contributions to literary and artistic development.

Today, Cornwell's novels and iconic characters are known around the world. Beyond the Scarpetta series, Cornwell has written the definitive nonfiction account of Jack the Ripper's identity, cookbooks, a children's book, a biography of Ruth Graham, and three other fictional series based on the characters Win Garano, Andy Brazil, and Captain Callie Chase. Cornwell continues exploring the latest space-age technologies and threats relevant to contemporary life. Her interests range from the morgue to artificial intelligence and include visits to Interpol, the Pentagon, the U.S. Secret Service and NASA.

Cornwell was born in Miami. She grew up in Montreat, North Carolina, and now lives and works in Boston.