num_pages: 9
description: Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone calls to the reclusive author. Terrified, she flees to Key West. But, eventually, she must return to her Richmond, Virginia home. The very night she returns, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in . . . 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 the person who brutally slashed and nearly decapitated her? Did she know her killer?Pressure from Beryl's agent and the state attorney general force Kay Scarpetta beyond the boundaries of conventional forensic medicine. She must retrace Beryl's footsteps. An investigation that begins in the laboratory leads Dr. Scarpetta deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own.
language: English
title: Body of Evidence
titlecomplete: Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)
characters: Kay Scarpetta, Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, Cary Harper, Sterling Harper, Al Hunt, Mark James, Beryl Madison
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Adult, Crime, Murder Mystery, Suspense
ratings_count: 76248
places: Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
series: Kay Scarpetta
publisher: Bookcassette