'Cornwell is the one to beat when it comes to slick, speedy chillers' Sunday Telegraph 'A great writer ... read these books only in broad daylight' Daily Mail 'Head-under-bedclothes tension' The Times

POSTMORTEM, first published in 1990, was Patricia Cornwell's first novel, and won five international awards. Her Scarpetta novels have since become Number One bestsellers throughout the world. She has also published three police procedurals, HORNET'S