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Identity Unknown By Patricia Cornwell

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THE THRILLING NEW KAY SCARPETTA MYSTERY FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER


‘Iconic. Bold. Brilliant. Identity Unknown is hauntingly original, impossibly clever and devilishly daring. This series is one of the all-time greats’ CHRIS WHITAKER, author of ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK

Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is Sal Giordano, an acclaimed astrophysicist – and a man Scarpetta once loved.

The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body. Scarpetta’s niece Lucy believes Giordano was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows autopsies can reveal the dead’s secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue.

As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces, and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that, in her mind, is far more evil . . .

‘Nerve-jangling . . . A thriller that’s out of this world’ THE TIMES

‘Heart-stopping’ SUNDAY POST

‘Cornwell on vintage form’ FINANCIAL TIMES

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PRAISE FOR UNNATURAL DEATH

A chilling, thrilling, macabre masterpiece. Unnatural Death is Patricia Cornwell at her mesmerising finest. The best just got better
CHRIS WHITAKER

Sinister, surprising and utterly unputdownable. Cornwell at her brilliant best
M. J. ARLIDGE

Classic Cornwell with an up-to-the-minute twenty-first-century plot – an intoxicating blend that proves Scarpetta is still queen of the autopsy and Cornwell is still queen of crime fiction. An utterly thrilling roller coaster ride
ANDREA MARA

An especially good entry in the series
BOOKLIST

PRAISE FOR PATRICIA CORNWELL

One of the best crime writers writing today
GUARDIAN

Astonishing . . . Thirty years on, there's still no other crime writer like her
SUNDAY TIMES

The top gun in this field
DAILY TELEGRAPH

America's most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction
THE TIMES

Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns
MIRROR

A pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thriller
BBC

The Agatha Christie of the DNA age
EXPRESS

The queen of the forensic thriller
MAIL ON SUNDAY

Cutting-edge
SUN

When it comes to forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Slick, fast-paced and brilliant
HEAT

Iconic. Bold. Brilliant. Identity Unknown is hauntingly original, impossibly clever and devilishly daring. Scalpel-sharp storytelling, trademark twists and characters that feel like family, this series is one of the all-time greats
CHRIS WHITAKER

Combines nerve-jangling tension with stomach-turning physical detail . . . A thriller that's out of this world
THE TIMES

Another heart-stopping read
SUNDAY POST

Scarpetta is one of the best known heroines in crime fiction . . . Here Cornwell gives her some humanity in that she is called to examine the corpse of a man with whom she had an intense affair many year ago
DAILY MAIL

Cornwell has been one of most reliable crime-fiction practitioners since Postmortem in 1990 introduced her forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta. Identity Unknown has Scarpetta investigating a murder and finding to her horror that the victim is a man she was once in love with – and who seems to have left her a clue. Cornwell on vintage form
FINANCIAL TIMES

PRAISE FOR PATRICIA CORNWELL

Thirty years on, there's still no other crime writer like her
SUNDAY TIMES

One of the best crime writers writing today
GUARDIAN

Cornwell really is in a league of her own
HEAT

One of the all-time greats of this genre
SUN

Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns
MIRROR

The top gun in this field
DAILY TELEGRAPH

America's most stimulating and chilling writer of crime fiction
THE TIMES

The Agatha Christie of the DNA age
EXPRESS

The queen of the forensic thriller
MAIL ON SUNDAY

Weight 0.274 kg
Dimensions 202 × 130 × 40 cm