title: Postmortem / Body of Evidence / All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta)
author:  Patricia Cornwell 
description: Patricia Cornwell has said that if she hadn't written her Kay Scarpetta thrillers--the classic first three are collected in this volume--she might find them too scary to read. After all, she is the rare crime writer who knows what she's talking about: she worked on the newspaper crime beat and at the Scotland Yard-like medical examiner's office in Richmond, Virginia, at a time when a serial killer was murdering women just like her. (Cornwell sleeps with a .38 within reach.)
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  # Kay Scarpetta Series Volume 5  
  The BODY FARM  
  Patricia Cornwell
  
  Synopsis:
  
  Black Mountain, North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local police
  deal with one homicide a year, if they're unlucky, and where people are still
  getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night.
  
  
  But violent death is no respecter of venue, and the discovery of the corpse of
  a 11-yearold girl sends shock waves through the community. Dr. Kay Scarpetta,
  Chief, Medical Examiner on a similar case in Virginia, is called in to apply
  her forensic skills to this latest atrocity, but the apparent simplicity of
  the case proves something of a poisoned chalice until Scarpetta finds
  enlightenment through the curious pathologists' playground known as the Body
  Farm. A former crime reporter for the Charlotte Observer, Patricia Cornwell
  worked for over six years as a computer analyst in the Chief Medical
  Examiner's office in Virginia. She is also the author of A Time for
  Remembering, a bio