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(Click to read the latest tour de force, in which Scarpetta boils a dead woman's bones.)
The most poignant parts of her books detail the pressures Scarpetta faces as an executive who's responsible for the welfare of her subordinates but under ruthless pressure to deliver results; the impossibility of sorting through overwhelming floods of information and straining for an educated guess; the sadness of a life lived in helicopters and planes rather than in hotels; the inadequacy of colleagues who function like family but aren't.
At the end of Point of Origin , someone Scarpetta cares about meets a fate so gross and far-fetched it made me giggle.
Point of Origin also further develops Cornwell's most loaded theme, lesbianism, by way of Scarpetta's niece, Lucy.
In Postmortem (1990), Scarpetta's impressive debut, the tone was grim and graphic, focused on the nitty-gritty of crime detection and the challenges faced by a woman entering this mostly male business.