Kay Scarpetta · Book 6
From Potter's Field
- Published
- 1 January 1995
- Pages
- 393
- ISBN-13
- 9780748109388
- Type
- novel
About this book
From Potter's Field, published in 1995 at 393 pages, is a novel by Patricia Cornwell. It sits at #6 in Kay Scarpetta's reading order. The Body Farm comes before it, Cause of Death after.
Its place in Kay Scarpetta
From Potter's Field is book 6 in the Kay Scarpetta series. It follows The Body Farm. It is followed by Cause of Death. 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 9780748109388