Kay Scarpetta · Book 3

All That Remains

by Patricia Cornwell

Published
1 January 1992
Pages
399
ISBN-13
9780684195155
Type
novel

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About this book

The third book in the Kay Scarpetta series, All That Remains was published in 1992, continuing Patricia Cornwell's technically credible forensic procedural as Scarpetta works a case alongside Pete Marino and her computer-prodigy niece Lucy, whose own arc runs the length of the series.

Its place in Kay Scarpetta

All That Remains is book 3 in the Kay Scarpetta series. It follows Body of Evidence. It is followed by Cruel and Unusual. See the full Kay Scarpetta reading order.

Kay Scarpetta is the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia (and, later, a federal forensic investigator and private consultant) whose autopsy table is where every case really begins. Patricia Cornwell's series is credited with popularising the modern forensic-procedural: DNA evidence, trace analysis and autopsy detail that were startlingly technical for genre fiction in 1990 and remain a core selling point today. Scarpetta investigates alongside her homicide-detective niece-in-all-but-name-later-partner Pete Marino…

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