# Dust by Patricia Cornwell (Paperback)

**The twenty-first book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell - soon to be an original series on Prime Video**  
**'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' _The Times_**  
  
After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to recover, but an unsettling call drives her straight back to work.  
  
The body of a young woman has been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, draped in an unusual cloth and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination reveals that the body is covered in a fine dust that under ultra-violet light fluoresces blood-red, emerald-green and sapphire-blue, and physical evidence links this to another series of disturbing homicides in Washington, DC.  
  
As she pieces together the fragments of evidence, Scarpetta discovers that the cases connect, yet also seem to conflict, drawing herself and her team deeper into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology, organised crime, and shocking corruption at the highest level.  
  
**The next book in the Scarpetta series is _Flesh and Blood_. And the brand-new instalment, _Identity Unknown_, is available now!  
  
****DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT SHAPED THE WORLD OF CRIME FICTION**  
**'One of the** **best crime writers writing today**' _Guardian_  
  
'**Devilishly clever**' _Sunday Times_  
  
'**The top gun in this field**' _Daily Telegraph_  
  
'**Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns**' _Mirror_  
  
'**The Agatha Christie of the DNA age**' _Express_  
  
TRACE was a No.1 _Sunday Times_ bestseller in paperback in April 2005

## Details

- **Price:** 9.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- **Type:** Patricia Cornwell
- **Tags:** Action & Adventure, Adult, Crime & Mystery, Paperback, Thriller & Suspense

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