num_pages: 356
description: A farmhouse destroyed by fire. A body amongst the ruins. Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds a body which tells a story of a violent and grisly murder. The fire has come at the same time as another, even more incendiary horror: Carrie Grethen, a killer who nearly destroyed the lives of Scarpetta and those closest to her, has escaped from a forensic psychiatric hospital. Her whereabouts is unknown, but her ultimate destination is not, for Carrie has begun to communicate with Scarpetta, conveying her deadly - if cryptic - plans for revenge. Chillingly mesmeric in tone, labyrinthine in structure, POINT OF ORIGIN is Patricia Cornwell at her most dazzling.
language: English
title: Point Of Origin
titlecomplete: Point Of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9)
characters: Kay Scarpetta, Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, T.N. McGovern, Lucy Farinelli, Betty Foster – Kenneth Sparkes horse trainer, based in Beaverdam, Kenneth Sparkes
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Adult, Crime, Murder Mystery, Suspense
ratings_count: 63223
places: Virginia, The United States of America
series: Kay Scarpetta
publisher: Putnam