Kay Scarpetta · Book 22
Flesh and Blood
- Published
- 1 January 2014
- Pages
- 424
- ISBN-13
- 9780062341600
- Type
- novel
About this book
Released in 2014, Flesh and Blood holds the twenty-second spot in Kay Scarpetta, running 424 pages of the DNA-and-trace-evidence procedural detail that has been the series' selling point since Cornwell, a former medical examiner's office worker herself, began the series in 1990.
Its place in Kay Scarpetta
Flesh and Blood is book 22 in the Kay Scarpetta series. It follows Dust. It is followed by Depraved Heart. 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 9780062325372
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062341600