With All That Remains, #1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta for the third installment of the classic suspense fiction series that begins with Postmortem. In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president's newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr. Kay Scarpetta knows time is short. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Kay must draw upon her own personal resources to track down a murderer who is as skilled at eliminating clues as Kay is at finding them...
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作者簡介
派翠西亞.康薇爾 Patricia Cornwell
一九五六年出生於邁阿密。她的職業生涯從主跑社會新聞的記者開始,一九八四年在維吉尼亞州的法醫部門擔任檢驗紀錄員。一九八四年~八六年間,康薇爾根據自身的法醫工作經驗寫下了三本小說,然而一開始的出書過程並不順利。
後來,康薇爾聽從建議,推翻原本以男性偵探為主角的構想,改以女法醫為主軸,終於在一九九○年出版了她的第一本推理小說《屍體會說話》,結果一炮而紅, 為她風光贏得一九九○年英國犯罪小說作家協會約翰.克雷西獎。一九九一年,此書榮獲一九九一年美國推理作家協會愛倫坡最佳首作、國際推理讀者協會麥卡維帝 獎最佳首作、鮑查大會安東尼獎最佳首作,以及一九九一年法國Roman d’Aventures大獎。
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