Black Notice

 

This taut thriller from best-selling author Patricia Cornwell reaffirms her talents as one of America's best crime fiction writers. Black Notice follows Dr. Kay Scarpetta once more as she attempts to uncover the secrets behind a decomposing body of a stowaway, sealed in a cargo ship. When a ship from Belgium arrives at Richmond's Deep Water Terminal with the dead body, Scarpetta is called in for an autopsy. However, the autopsy reveals next to nothing about the victim, nor the cause of death and Scarpetta begins a hunt for clues, which leads her right to Interpol's headquarters in France. From there it becomes even more secretive as she receives mysterious orders to go to the Paris morgue where evidence is located that has much wider implications. Implications that could threaten her career.

 

 

 

Newly repackaged in a tall Premium Edition, this #1 "New York Times" bestseller finds Dr. Kay Scarpetta on an international mission that will pull her in two opposite directions. Includes a new Introduction by Cornwell. Reissue.

Patricia Cornwell is an award-winning novelist whose books have consistently appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. Cornwell was born in Florida in 1956. When she was nine years old, her mother tried to give her and her two brothers to evangelist Billy Graham and his wife to care for. For a while the children lived with missionaries since their mother was unable to care for them. Cornwell was a police reporter for The Charlotte Observer and worked in the chief medical examiner's office in Richmond, Virginia, for six years as a computer analyst. She also volunteered to ride with the police during homicide investigations. While working for the medical examiner, she began to write novels. Although the award-winning novel Postmortem was initially rejected by seven different publishers, once it was published it became the only novel ever to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards, and the French Prix du Roman d'Adventure, in one year. She is also the only woman in the United States to receive England's most prestigious crime-writing award, the Gold Dagger. Cornwell's novels are both national and international bestsellers. They have been translated into several foreign languages. Some of her novels are Body of Evidence, All That Remains, Cruel & Unusual, The Body Farm, From Potter's Field, Unnatural Exposure, Hornet's Nest, and A Time for Remembering, a biography of Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of Billy Graham.