He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.

Quote by Patricia Cornwell

S. Cornwell shifted back to a first-person perspective in the Scarpetta novel Port Mortuary (2010). He paid a fine.

Her books have sold more than 100 million copies. Kay Scarpetta a medical examiner.