Point of Origin (original 1998; edition 1999)

by Patricia Cornwell, Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Series: Kay Scarpetta (9)

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Title:	Point of Origin
Authors:	Patricia Cornwell
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Info:	Berkley (1999), Paperback, 416 pages
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Op een bepaald moment lijken alle Scarpetta-thrillers op elkaar. Deze is misschien een uitzondering door de dood van Benton, maar het andere in dit boek heeft geen diepe indruk achtergelaten.
Herlezen en dan een review schrijven, ook voor dit boek.

BoekenTrol71 | Mar 31, 2013 |

A thought that came to me during Unnatural Exposure happened in this novel. The case of the limbless torsos continues in this story. The basis for this story is arson and charred bodies. Lucy has quit the FBI and Wesley has retired. Pete Marino continues his unhealthy life style of booze, cigarettes, and greasy foods. Luckily in this story, no worker in the morgue is killed. In Cornwell's usual style, arson and helicopter flying are thoroughly explained. Maybe I need to cease reading Cornwell for a while. She has explicit violence, which is usually balanced by Kay's love and concern for Lucy, Wesley, and Pete. After reading these novels, I feel that the world is populated with only evil. (

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delphimo | Aug 26, 2011 |

KAY SCARPETTA

rustyoldboat | May 28, 2011 |

Finally the mystery from the last book is solved. Again, I'm not sure why they completely ignored an important bit of information that eventually led to the murderer but alltogether I liked the book.

verenka | Jun 14, 2010 |

Okay book.: Okay book. So who's this cydneyday chick, who writes perfectly ordinary reviews of not especially popular books and CDs, and whose reviews all seem to collect nineteen "Helpful" votes within a day or so of their appearance even though they're no more "helpful" than those nearby? Smells fishy to me. Ninety-six reviews, with a total of 2096 "Helpful" votes - and not one review more than a month old. You've GOT to be kidding.

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A Third Scarpetta Omnibus: Cause of Death, Unnatural Exposure, Point of Origin by Patricia Cornwell

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1998)

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Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it , because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. (1 Corinthians 3:13)

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With love to Barbara Bush (for the difference you make)

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Benton Wesley was taking off his running shoes in my kitchen when I ran to him, my heart tripping over fear and hate and remembered horror.

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When your everyday life is filled with death it's easy to find yourself a little edgy. The audio version of Patricia Cornwell's Point of Origin gives fans of her familiar heroine, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a little something extra, a chance to hear the deep hurt and burning cynicism of the chief medical examiner's biting words. "You don't put your hands inside their ruined bodies and touch and measure their wounds.... You see clean case files and glossy photos and cold crime scenes. You spend more time with the killers than with those they ripped from life. And maybe you sleep better than I do, too. Maybe you still dream because you aren't afraid to."

Perhaps because Kate Reading has also narrated Cornwell's Unnatural Exposure and Cause of Death, her voice conveys experience and the history of what has come before, allowing listeners to hear between the lines. Using a subtle but effective range of vocal inflections, Reading lifts the characters off the page and carries them along as the plot spins ever faster, tangling Scarpetta in a snarl of arson, deceit, and psychopathic murder. With her arch nemesis making threats and suspicious fires leaving calcified corpses, Dr. Scarpetta's long-overdue romantic getaway has gone up in smoke. It's just one more day at the morgue, and Point of Origin, another hit in the popular series of Scarpetta mysteries, finds the good doctor's attitude honed razor sharp. (Running time: 11 hours, eight cassettes) --George Laney

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Virginia's chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta matches wits with a wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes. The case begins with a fire in which many horses die and the embers yield a human body.

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