In 1990, Patricia Cornwell sold her first novel, Postmortem, while working at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. TRACE was a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller in paperback in April 2005 Read More Read Less ' The Agatha Christie of the DNA age' Express ' The top gun in this field' Daily Telegraph 'One of the best crime writers writing today' Guardian A preliminary examination reveals that the body is covered in a fine dust that under ultra-violet light fluoresces blood-red, emerald-green and sapphire-blue, and physical evidence links this to another series of disturbing homicides in Washington, DC.Īs she pieces together the fragments of evidence, Scarpetta discovers that the cases connect, yet also seem to conflict, drawing herself and her team deeper into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology, organised crime, and shocking corruption at the highest level.ĭust is a thrilling, addictive novel featuring one of the most iconic, original and compelling characters in crime fiction today. The body of a young woman has been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, draped in an unusual cloth and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike.

'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The TimesĪfter working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to recover, but an unsettling call drives her straight back to work. The twenty-first book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. The twenty-first Kay Scarpetta thriller, from the No.1 bestseller who has sold over 75 million books worldwide

Dust by Patricia Cornwell