What to know about Trace
Trace by Patricia Cornwell was first published in 2004, and it sits in the Kay Scarpetta series.
Trace is Book 13 in the Kay Scarpetta series. New readers should begin with Book 1, Postmortem. The book just before this one is Blow Fly. 1 of the 31 books in the series have a full review here.
We have reviewed one of Patricia Cornwell’s books so far: Identity Unknown, which we gave 4 out of 5.
From the publisher
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from South Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Richmond, Virginia's recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he needs Scarpetta's help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: Her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isn't the one who requested her after all; her old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he won't reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent, whom Scarpetta dislikes instantly, meddles with the case.
Deprived of assistance from colleagues Benton and Lucy, who are embroiled in what appears to be an unrelated attempted rape by a stalker, Scarpetta is faced with investigating the death of a fourteen-year-old girl, working with the smallest pieces of evidence --- traces that only the most thorough hunters can identify. She must follow the twisting leads and track the strange details in order to make the dead speak --- and to reveal the sad truth that may be more than even she can bear ...
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We haven’t read Trace yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
