title: A Scarpetta Omnibus: Postmortem; Body of Evidence; All That Remains
author:  Patricia Cornwell 
description: This omnibus collects the first three Scarpetta titles - "Postmortem", (which won five international awards for the best first crime novel of 1990), "Body of Evidence" and "All That Remains".
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  Postmortem
  
  Patricia Cornwell
  
  Chapter 1
  
  It was raining in Richmond on Friday, June 6.
  
  The relentless downpour, which began at dawn, beat the lilies to naked stalks,
  and blacktop and sidewalks were littered with leaves. There were small rivers
  in the streets, and newborn ponds on playing fields and lawns. I went to sleep
  to the sound of water drumming the slate roof, and was dreaming a terrible
  dream as night dissolved into the foggy first hours of Saturday morning.
  
  
  I saw a white face beyond the rain-streaked glass, a face formless and inhuman
  like the faces of misshapen dolls made of nylon hose. My bedroom window was
  dark when suddenly the face was there, an evil intelligence looking in. I woke
  up and stared blindly into the dark. I did not know what had awakened me until
  the telephone rang again. I found the receiver without fumbling.
  
  "Dr. Scarpetta?"
  
  "Yes."
  
  I reached for the lamp and switched it on. It was 2:33 A.M. My heart was
  drilling through my ribs.
  
  "P