The book references DNA profiling as a relatively new technique, and characters briefly bemoan the lack of a criminal DNA database which could provide better leads to suspects, given available evidence. Initial evidence appears to point to the fourth victim's husband, but Scarpetta suspects otherwise despite Marino's insistence. Scarpetta and Marino work with FBI profiler Benton Wesley to attempt to piece together a profile of the killer.
The killer leaves behind a few clues among them are a mysterious substance which fluoresces under laser light, which was later on proved to be from a liquid soap which the killer used to wash his hands, traces of semen, and in the vicinity of the last murder, an unusual smell.
She meets him at the scene of a woman's gruesome strangling, the latest in a string of unsolved murders in Richmond. Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia, receives an early-morning call from Sergeant Pete Marino, a homicide detective at the Richmond Police Department with whom Scarpetta has a tense working relationship. Kay Scarpetta series, it received the 1991 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.
Postmortem is a crime fiction novel by author Patricia Cornwell and is her debut novel.
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