Twen years ago, Patricia Cornwell created Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta In doing so, she originated the modern-day forensic thriller and changed the face of contemporary crime fiction.Now, Kay Scarpetta returns in Cornwell’s most extraordinary novel yet.’Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns’Mirror’Cornwell still does it better than anyone else’Daily Mail’Patricia Cornwell is the queen of gritty, grisly crime writing’