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Cornwell has worked as a crime reporter and for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia, so she certainly has the background to bring a sense of authenticity to her medical examiner heroine and first person narrator, Kay Scarpetta. Indeed, I think its the details of this world that raises it above the usual police procedural about a serial killer. (This was published in 1990 when DNA testing was in its infancy--it was striking reading of how back then it wasn't a sure thing it would
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