Point of origin
By: Patricia Cornwell.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Medical examiners (Law) -- Fiction; Forensic pathologists -- Fiction; Women physicians -- Fiction; Virginia -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: From the author of Unnatural Exposure and Cause of Death comes a new Kay Scarpetta novel that pits Virginia's chief medical examiner against an audacious and wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes. And when Scarpetta learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, is somehow involved, the investigation gets personal and tragedy strikes closer to home.