Unnatural Exposure | Characters
As Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Chief Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of Virginia, describes a meal at her home with one of her crime-fighting colleagues, she states, "we talked about fibers embedded in bone and Koss's analysis of them as we carried steaks and wine inside. We sat at the kitchen table with a candle lit, digesting information few people would serve with food." The contrasts in this passage are the hallmarks of Patricia Cornwall's series about Scarpetta: the everyday versus the outre, small pleasures versus large terrors, professional objectivity versus emotional...
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