The body farm
By: Patricia Cornwell.
Edition: [Book Club ed.].
Publisher: Scribner's
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780684195971
Subjects: Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Medical examiners (Law) -- United States -- Fiction.; Women detectives -- United States -- Fiction.; Virginia -- Fiction.; North Carolina -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for Virginia, investigates the sex murder of a girl by an escaped convict. The probe requires exhuming the body for a second autopsy. Lots of information on bodies and autopsies. By the author of Cruel and Unusual.