What to know about Point of Origin
Point of Origin by Patricia Cornwell was first published in 1998, and it sits in the Kay Scarpetta series.
Point of Origin is Book 9 in the Kay Scarpetta series. New readers should begin with Book 1, Postmortem. The book just before this one is Unnatural Exposure. We have reviewed 1 of the series so far.
Identity Unknown is the one Patricia Cornwell book we have reviewed, at 4 out of 5.
From the publisher
A farmhouse destroyed by fire
A body amongst the ruins
Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds a body which tells a story of a violent and grisly murder.
The fire has come at the same time as another even more incendiary horror: Carrie Grethen, a killer who nearly destroyed the lives of Scarpetta and those closest to her, has escaped from a forensic psychiatric hospital. Her whereabouts is unknown, but her ultimate destination is not, for Carrie has begun to communicate with Scarpetta, conveying her deadly - if cryptic - plans for revenge.
Chillingly mesmeric in tone, labyrinthine in structure, Point of Origin is Patricia Cornwell at her most dazzling.
Description supplied by the publisher.
We haven’t read Point of Origin yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
