Book Description
Virginia's chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is getting ready for a romantic holiday with her retired-FBI-profiler boyfriend, Benton Wesley, when she receives a cryptic and foreboding letter: "Hey DOC, Tick Tock, Sawed bone and fire," it begins. Even more creepy, the taunting note has been signed by Carrie Grethen, the psychotic killer Kay helped send to a psychiatric facility for going on a murder spree with Temple Gault in Cornwell's earlier book Body Farm. Benton believes that Grethen--who also happens to be the former lover of Scarpetta's niece Lucy--has big plans for a comeback. And before Kay and Benton can leave for their trip and discuss it further, Scarpetta is called upon to don yet another professional hat, that of a "consulting forensic pathologist" for the federal government. Someone has burned a highfalutin horse ranch and all of its contents, including a human being, to the ground. Worse, Grethen has escaped and is on the loose and closer to Kay and her beloved than she knows. Point of Origin, the ninth Scarpetta thriller, is classic Cornwell: rich with detail and strong dialogue, and doused with harrowing twists.

About the Author
Patricia Cornwell is the Gold Dagger - and Edgar - winning author whose international bestsellers include Unnatural Exposure, Cause of Death, Cruel and Unusual, All That Remains, Body of Evidence, and Postmortem. She divides her time between Richmond, Virginia, and New York.

Book details
Paperback: 397 pages; Publisher: Berkley (August 1999); ISBN: 0425169863

I'll send this book on Wednesday, November 2, 2005 to LilB as a RABCK. Why? Because he wrote in his RABCK.com profil, that he will receive book of this category.
Have a nice day and enjoy reading… ;-)

CU… CT

PS. Be free to release the book after you read it, thanks.

Wow ! Thank you so much for this RABCK. I had my wallet stolen a couple of days ago and then I came home to 3 books in my postbox. It's nice to know that there are more nice people than unmentionables. Thank you.
I will try and release it somewhere exciting.

Not one of Cornwell's best but I appreciate the Rabck gesture and will release it somewhere exciting !