The Washington Post, December 20th, 1998
For Kay Scarpetta, the week between Christmas and New Year's is the worst of the year. An unplugged dead time. Scarpetta is the fictional chief medical examiner of Virginia, the lead character in author Patricia Cornwell's blockbuster crime novels. And if she doesn't have a pressing case at Christmastime, she has too much time to brood about her life: her failed relationships, the mother in Miami she's never been able to please and worries she doesn't visit enough, the rapists and murderers whose activities provide her daily bread. And if she does have to work, almost inevitably it means going...
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