Kay Scarpetta · Book 21
Dust
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 528
- ISBN-13
- 9780751554014
- Type
- novel
About this book
Released in 2013, Dust holds the twenty-first spot in Kay Scarpetta, part of the long unbroken run of forensic procedurals Patricia Cornwell published through the 2010s before the series went quiet for five years after Chaos.
Its place in Kay Scarpetta
Dust is book 21 in the Kay Scarpetta series. It follows The Bone Bed. It is followed by Flesh and Blood. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780748130771
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751554014