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Postmortem

Portrait of Patricia CornwellPatricia Cornwell

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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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GenreCrime & thriller· first published 1990

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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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