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The body farm / Patricia Cornwell.
Dr. Kay Scarpetta travels to North Carolina to investigate the murder of an eleven-year-old girl, but the evidence does not add up, and she must conduct a gruesome experiment at a remote research facility to find the answers, in a new edition of the classic thriller, complete with a new introduction by the author.
Record details
- ISBN: 0425201449
- ISBN: 9780425201442
- Physical Description: 351 pages ; 18 cm.
- Edition: Berkley ed.
- Publisher: New York : Berkley Books : 2005.
- Copyright: ℗♭1994.
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| General Note: | Originally published: New York : Scribner's, 1994. "With a new introduction by the author"--Cover. |
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| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Upper Skagit Library | COR | 1010223 | Mystery/Thriller | Available | - |
Patricia Cornwell is considered one of the world's bestselling crime writers. Her intrepid medical examiner Kay Scarpetta first appeared on the scene in 1990 with Postmortemâthe only novel to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards and the French Prix du Roman d'Aventure in a single yearâand Cruel and Unusual, which won Britain's prestigious Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of 1993. Dr. Kay Scarpetta herself won the 1999 Sherlock Award for the best detective created by an American author. Ms. Cornwell's work is translated into 36 languages across more than 50 countries.