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From Potter's Field

by Patricia Cornwell · 1995

Christmas has never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta. Although a holiday for most, the festivities always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's violent fringe; and that usually means more work… more

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The world is full of people who mean no harm and cause a great deal of it.
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Blood squirted as his transected femoral artery haemorrhaged to the rhythm of his horrible heart. - From Potter's Field
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When violence occurs anywhere, it is everybody’s problem,
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Where did little boys and mothers stay on stormy nights out here?
Evil, I believed, had mutated to a new extreme.
Taceant Colloquia Effugiat Risus Hic Locus Est Ubi Mors Gaudet Succurrere Vitae, which meant one would find little conversation or laughter in this place where death delighted to help the living.
I’m tired of boys and their codes of honor. I’m tired of male bonding and secrecy. We are not kids playing cowboys and Indians. We’re not neighborhood children playing war.
rights are honored only in the breach. most people don't get agents or cops assigned to them until they're already raped or dead.

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Christmas has never been a particularly good time for Dr Kay Scarpetta. Although a holiday for most, the festivities always seem to heighten the alienation felt by society's violent fringe; and that usually means more work for Scarpetta, Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and consulting forensic pathologist for the FBI.

The body was naked, female, and found propped against a fountain in a bleak area of New York's Central Park. Her apparent manner of death points to a modus operandi that is chillingly familar: the gunshot wound to the head, the sections of skin excised from the body, the displayed corpse - all suggest that Temple Brooks Gault, Scarpetta's nemesis, is back at work.

Calling on all her reserves of courage and skill, and the able assistance of colleagues Marino and Wesley, Scarpetta must track this most dangerous of killers in pursuit of survival as well as justice - hea

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First published
1995
Genre
Mystery
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4.06 (65k ratings)
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