Postmortem

Cornwell's first mystery and first in a series featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia.  A little uneven, and occasionally gruesome (well, she's a medical examiner!), but generally a good, interesting story of how forensic evidence combines with standard police detective methods and psychological profiling to identify a serial rapist and killer. Maybe, maybe, I'll read more in the series.