Cause of Death
Author: Patricia Cornwell
See alternate cover edition hereAn investigative reporter is found dead in Virginia’s icy waters…New Year’s Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia’s bloodiest year takes Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River’s icy surface. A diver, Ted Eddings, is dead, an investigative reporter who was a favourite at the medical examiner’s office. Was Eddings probing the f….Read More
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