Dust

Author(s): Patricia Cornwell

General Fiction

After 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 body of a young woman has been found on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field, draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination of the area where the body was found reveals a mysterious residue that fluoresces blood-red, emerald-green and sapphire-blue, and physical evidence links this to another series of disturbing homicides in Washington, DC. As Scarpetta pieces together the fragments of evidence she discovers that the cases connect, yet also seem to conflict, and with so much at stake, it's clear that she is the only one who can solve it ...Dust is a thrilling, addictive novel featuring one of the most iconic, original and compelling characters in crime fiction today.


Product Information

Scarpetta is on the trail of a killer in the new outstanding novel by the bestselling author of The Bone Bed

Patricia Cornwell's first crime novel, Postmortem, was published in 1990 and became the first novel to win all the major crime awards in a single year. In 2008 Cornwell won the Galaxy British Book Awards' Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year - the first American ever to win this award. In 2011 she was awarded the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. Often interviewed on US national television as a forensic consultant, Cornwell is a founder of the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine; a founding member of the National Forensic Academy; a member of the Advisory Board for the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, NYC and a member of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital's National Council, where she is an advocate for psychiatric research. Fox have acquired the film rights to the Scarpetta novels, featuring Angelina Jolie as Dr Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell's books are translated into thirty-six languages across more than fifty countries, and she is regarded as one of the major international bestselling authors.

General Fields

  • : 9781847445339
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
  • : Sphere
  • : 0.684
  • : September 2013
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : November 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 512
  • : 813/.54
  • : 514
  • : Paperback
  • : Patricia Cornwell