body of evidence Author:patricia cornwell Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone calls to the reclusive author. Terrified, Beryl fkees to Key West. But, eventually, she nust return ti her Richmond home.The very night she arrives,Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in.... — Thus begins for Chief Medical Examiner Dr.Kay Scrapetta ... more »the investigation of a crime thas is as convoluted as it is bizarre.Why would Beryl open a door to someone who brutally slashed and then nearly decapitated her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrgue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and the disppearance of Beryl's manuscript. Pressure from Beryl's agent and the attorney general, as well as the mysterious reappearance of Scarpetta's former lover, lawyer Mark James,force her beyond the boundaries of forensic medicine. She must retrace Beryl's footsteps. An investigation theat begins in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads Scarpetta deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own. With this novel, Patricia D. Cronwell takes her rightful place as "Mistress of Mystery" Finley crafted, rich in charcter and suspense, Body of Evidence is stunning acheivement from a supberly talented author.« less