Fiction

Cornwell, Patricia. Cause of Death (1996)   G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 340 pages, $25.95 hardcover   ISBN 0 399 14146 4 This book opens with a powerful image:  “On the last morning of Virginia’s bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew […]

Cornwell, Patricia. From Potter’s Field  (1995)   Scribner, 412 pages, $24.00 hardcover   ISBN 0-684-19598-4 In the few days surrounding Christmas, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Pete Marino (now a police captain), and FBI agent Benton Wesley pursue Temple Gault, a serial killer who has appeared in earlier Scarpetta novels. Scarpetta’s niece, computer whiz Lucy, now age