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9780316644402: Point Of Origin
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0316644404 ISBN 13: 9780316644402
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, 1998

Synopsis

Carrie Grethen, partner in crime to William Temple Gault, has escaped from prison. She has also sent Kay Scarpetta a message making it clear she blames her for Gault's death and has plans for revenge. Investigating another case, Scarpetta begins to feel she is being manipulated by an unseen hand.

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About the Author

Patricia Cornwell's first crime novel, Postmortem, was published in 1990 and became the first novel to win all the major crime awards in a single year. In 2008 Cornwell won the Galaxy British Book Awards' Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year - the first American ever to win this award. In 2011 she was awarded the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Often interviewed on US national television as a forensic consultant, Cornwell is a founder of the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine; a founding member of the National Forensic Academy; a member of the Advisory Board for the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, NYC and a member of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital's National Council, where she is an advocate for psychiatric research.

Fox have acquired the film rights to the Scarpetta novels, featuring Angelina Jolie as Dr Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell's books are translated into thirty-six languages across more than fifty countries, and she is regarded as one of the major international bestselling authors.

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Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0316644404
ISBN 13 
9780316644402
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
352