A Second Scarpetta Omnibus - Tapa blanda

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
Two seemingly unrelated events occur one cold night in December; convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the electric chair and the wounded body of a young boy is found propped against a rubbish skip. But when Scarpetta recalls that the body of Waddell's victim had been arranged in a similar position, these two events don't seem quite so unrelated...
THE BODY FARM
The discovery of the corpse of a young girl sends shock waves through a sleepy little town in North Carolina. Dr Kay Scarpetta is called in but the apparent simplicity of the case proves something of a poisoned chalice - until Scarpetta finds enlightenment through the curious pathologists' playground known as the Body Farm...
FROM POTTER'S FIELD
A female body is found in New York's Central Park and it seems to be the work of Temple Brooks Gault, Scarpetta's nemesis. With help from her colleagues Marino and Wesley, Scarpetta must track this most dangerous of killers, in pursuit of survival as well as justice...

Patricia Cornwell's first crime novel, Postmortem, was published in 1990 and became the first novel to win all the major crime awards in a single year. In 2008 Cornwell won the Galaxy British Book Awards' Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year - the first American ever to win this award. In 2011 she was awarded the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Often interviewed on US national television as a forensic consultant, Cornwell is a founder of the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine; a founding member of the National Forensic Academy; a member of the Advisory Board for the Forensic Sciences Training Program at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, NYC and a member of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital's National Council, where she is an advocate for psychiatric research.

Fox have acquired the film rights to the Scarpetta novels, featuring Angelina Jolie as Dr Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell's books are translated into thirty-six languages across more than fifty countries, and she is regarded as one of the major international bestselling authors.