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Postmortem
Patricia Cornwell
Postmortem is a 1990 crime fiction novel by author Patricia Cornwell and her debut novel. The first novel of the Kay Scarpetta series, it received the 1991 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.
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Vivek’s Notes
The first appearance of Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a forensic pathologist and chief medical examiner. In the early novels Scarpetta works in Richmond as the Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia and as a member of faculty at Virginia Medical Center.
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