Body of Evidence
Author: Patricia Cornwell
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 investigatio….Read More
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