Patricia Cornwell

Postmortem is written in the kind of way only a forensic pathologist could write a crime novel. Realistically. On point. Bang on. Everything about the writing is perfect, tense and tempo included.
When a strangler plagues the town and women turn up dead Dr Kay Scarpetta has to work with the moronic Marino to solve the case in time to stop another attack, but when you've got the local governors working to put a spanner in your works, how are you supposed to stop the bad guy? Lure him out? Calling him a degenerate, smelly defective is going to infuriate the heck out of him, but will it be enough to cause him to make a mistake?

10/10 page turner from beginning to finish. Can't wait to move onto the next Cornwell novel.