title: Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)
author: Patricia D. Cornwell
description: This fourth mystery to feature Virginia Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kay Scarpetta was a 12-week PW bestseller. <br />Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  All that Remains by Patricia D Cornwell.
  
  A good one to start with. The third 'Scarpetta' book and probably my
  favourite- suitably gory, and full of the themes that would come to dominate
  (possibly even damage?) her later work - lesbians, handsome but distant men,
  police procedures and minutely described gruesome murders. All held together
  by Dr Kay herself, a strong, unusual and genuinely original character. The
  whole thing somehow always reminds me of some parts of 'Silence of the Lambs'.
  From a UK paperback version. Enjoy. AFB,
  
  A DR KAY Scarpetta Mystery
  
  All that Remains by Patricia D Cornwell
  
  A killer is stalking young lovers. Taking their lives... and leaving just one
  tantalizing clue...
  
  When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodland
  areas, Dr Kay Scarpetta's task as Chief Medical Examiner is made more
  difficult by the effects of the elements. Eight times she must write that the
  cause of death is undetermined.
  
  Bu