The Last Precinct

Cornwell, Patricia

ISBN 10: 0399146253 / ISBN 13: 9780399146251

Published by Putman, New York, 2000

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New Hardback, 1st Edition, full number line, 1st Printing, FINE/FINE - Book/Dust jacket
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? Dr. Kay Scarpetta must prove her innocence and clear her name in this ?cunningly designed [and] ingeniously laid out? (Los Angeles Times) thriller.

Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer has inconceivably put Virginia?s Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past. A formidable prosecutor, a female assistant district attorney from New York, is brought into the case?and Scarpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting and unnerving evidence to the contrary. Tested in every way, she turns inward to ask, Where do you go when there is nowhere left?

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last Precinct
• Publisher: Putman, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399146253
• ISBN 13: 9780399146251
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, full number line.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

Attracting unwanted attentions when she is mandated to research the four-hundred-year-old murder of a Jamestown, Virginia, settler, Kay Scarpetta finds enemies among those she is sworn to protect. 1,000,000 first printing. Lit Guild & Doubleday Main.

About the Author

Patricia Cornwell's most recent bestsellers include Red Mist, Port Mortuary, and Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper���Case Closed. Her earlier works include Postmortem���the only novel to win five major crime awards in a single year���and Cruel and Unusual, which won Britain���s prestigious Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of 1993. Dr. Kay Scarpetta herself won the 1999 Sherlock Award for the best detective created by an American author.