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POINT OF ORIGIN (NEW FORMAT) Paperback – 2 September 2010
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- Print length400 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSphere
- Publication date2 September 2010
- Dimensions12.8 x 2.6 x 19.6 cm
- ISBN-109780751544787
- ISBN-13978-0751544787
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Patricia Cornwell's first crime novel, Postmortem, was published in 1990 and became the first novel to win all the major crime awards in a single year. In 2008 Cornwell won the Galaxy British Book Awards' Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year - the first American ever to win this award. In 2011 she was awarded the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Often interviewed on US national television as a forensic consultant, Cornwell is a founder of the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine; a founding member of the National Forensic Academy; a member of the Advisory Board for the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, NYC and a member of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital's National Council, where she is an advocate for psychiatric research.
Fox have acquired the film rights to the Scarpetta novels, featuring Angelina Jolie as Dr Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell's books are translated into thirty-six languages across more than fifty countries, and she is regarded as one of the major international bestselling authors.
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- ASIN : 0751544787
- Publisher : Sphere (2 September 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 400 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780751544787
- ISBN-13 : 978-0751544787
- Item Weight : 290 g
- Dimensions : 12.8 x 2.6 x 19.6 cm
- Country of Origin : India
- Best Sellers Rank: #297,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5,049 in Mysteries (Books)
- #5,402 in Thrillers and Suspense
- #7,433 in Crime Fiction (Books)
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About the author
In 1990, Patricia Cornwell sold her first novel, Postmortem, while working at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. An auspicious debut, it went on to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity Awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure prize—the first book ever to claim all these distinctions in a single year. Growing into an international phenomenon, the Scarpetta series won Cornwell the Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author, the Gold Dagger Award, the RBA Thriller Award, and the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters for her contributions to literary and artistic development.
Today, Cornwell’s novels and iconic characters are known around the world. Beyond the Scarpetta series, Cornwell has written the definitive nonfiction account of Jack the Ripper’s identity, cookbooks, a children’s book, a biography of Ruth Graham, and two other fictional series based on the characters Win Garano and Andy Brazil. While writing Quantum, Cornwell spent two years researching space, technology, and robotics at Captain Calli Chase’s home base, NASA’s Langley Research Center, and studied cutting-edge law enforcement and security techniques with the Secret Service, the US Air Force, NASA Protective Services, Scotland Yard, and Interpol.
Cornwell was born in Miami. She grew up in Montreat, North Carolina, and now lives and works in Boston and Los Angeles.
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta, our hero Medical Examiner for Virginia, is also at her muddled finest. Scarpatta, who tells these stories in first person, has always been an unreliable narrator and here her vision of herself and how the reader sees her are at their most conflicted. Scarpetta is just not quite who she thinks she is as she excuses herself for being judgmental, tolerates the intolerable and rides roughshod over anyone who even hints of getting in her way.
Scarpetta’s character is the center of these novels and her inner conflicts and frequent lack of self-awareness are on full display as she puts herself, her friends and her niece in harm’s way. Scarpetta is on the trail of a killer who puts fire to a horse farm and kills a beautiful young girl in the process. That’s the beginning. As the story develops so we are taken into the villains of Scarpetta’s and her friends’ past tying together plot lines that have been festering through the previous several novels. Still, ‘Point of Origin’ works perfectly well as a stand alone.
Scarpetta’s intelligence and intuition help her but, they also risk everything as this book proceeds to tie up the stories of killers from earlier books in a highly satisfying way but not without dire consequences to those closest to her. As with the best of the Scarpetta novels, this one is emotionally searing. It’s clear that all those close to Scarpetta are in danger, the only question is who will survive and who will die a horrible death.
The novel races towards the end with a surprise aerial chase that is so carefully put together it reeks of the research that went into writing it and that’s a good thing.
Cornwell is at the top of her game. Not to be put down.