Kay Scarpetta comes out of retirement in Patricia Cornwell's new novel Autopsy, Books, Entertainment

WHEN Patricia Cornwell was writing her novel Unnatural Exposure she came up with a fiendish murder plot involving her heroine Kay Scarpetta and deadly, lab-mutated smallpox. At the time, this was the mid-nineties, the idea was deemed fanciful.

Fear is a force of nature. No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the twenty-fourth engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning - except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr.

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