num_pages: 387
description: A reclusive writer is dead. And her final manuscript has disappeared...Someone is after Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone calls. Terrified, she flees to Key West—but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer...Thus begins for Dr Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre. Why would Beryl open the door to someone who brutally slashed and then nearly decapitated her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with a prize-winning author and the disappearance of her own manuscript.As Scarpetta retraces Beryl's footsteps, an investigation that begins in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads her 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: 76271
places: Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
series: Kay Scarpetta
publisher: Time Warner