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Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781847445322

Price: £18.99

ON SALE: 12th November 2013

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Thriller / Suspense

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After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to recover, but an unsettling call drives her straight back to work.

The body of a young woman has been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, draped in an unusual cloth and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer’s first strike. A preliminary examination reveals that the body is covered in a fine dust that under ultra-violet light fluoresces blood-red, emerald-green and sapphire-blue, and physical evidence links this to another series of disturbing homicides in Washington, DC.

As she pieces together the fragments of evidence, Scarpetta discovers that the cases connect, yet also seem to conflict, drawing herself and her team deeper into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology, organised crime, and shocking corruption at the highest level.

Dust is a thrilling, addictive novel featuring one of the most iconic, original and compelling characters in crime fiction today.

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Reviews

A perfectly formed thriller
Sun
Praise for Patricia Cornwell
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One of the best crime writers writing today
Guardian
Devilishly clever
Sunday Times
The top gun in this field
Daily Telegraph
A pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thriller
BBC
Cornwell's books run on a cocktail of adrenaline and fear
The Times
When it comes to forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell
New York Times Book Review
Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns
Mirror