Book description
Deputy Chief Virginia West likes and respects her boss, Hammer, but
with an increasing number of visiting businessmen being murdered in her
city by a maniac with a penchant for painting his victims bright orange,
she finds it hard to accept Hammer's edict that a rookie reporter should
ride on patrol with her to better relations with their citizens. Her
worst fears are confirmed when the reporter, Brazil, presses the button
to activate the boot-release rather than the siren on their first
outing. He's not the only blight on her life right now: her cat's
angsty, her hormones are misbehaving, her opposite number in the
uniformed division is behaving like a jackass, the radio despatcher is
determined to trip her up, the D. A. is in the middle of a hot battle
with the trial schedule. And orange coloured corpses keep turning up on
her patch. Patricia Cornwell burst onto the crime fiction scene with
POSTMORTEM, and the subsequent novels featuring the forensic pathologist
Kay Scarpetta have all been substantial bestsellers. She divides her
time between, Richmond, Virginia, New York, LA and Grand Cayman.
