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Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls. Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West - but eventually she must return to her Richmond home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in ... Thus begins for Dr Kay Scarpetta the investigation of a  crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre. Why would Beryl open the door to someone who brutally slashed and then nearly decapitated her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with a prize-winning author and the disappearance of her own manuscript. As Scarpetta retraces Beryl's footsteps, an investigation that begins in the laboratory with microscopes and lasers leads her deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own. -- back cover of Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell A GREAT READ!

"JUST LIKE THE CANDLES, PEOPLE MELT WHEN THEY ARE CRYING." ... and I always melt whenever I think of  you. I shot a glance towards the direction of a light. I don't know what kind of light that was. I just saw your face illuminating behind those perfect flames. I decided to walk and had kept my focus on your face. I felt the glitter of happiness because I saw the beauty and radiance in you. But you were gone. I lit candles for the memories. Just like for today I had three. But when I finally reached and got hold of the light, the face that I missed so much suddenly turned to ash. This was November. But I got stacked at May.