Scarpetta's Winter Table

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Oct 26, 1998
Page Count
96 pages
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-13
9780941711425

Format

Hardcover

Format:

Hardcover

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On the day after Christmas, Scarpetta make her special pizza pie and Detective Pete Marino creates his “cause-of-death eggnog” (he uses corn liquor), while Lucy Farinelli (a special agent with ATF and Scarpetta’s only niece) goes on a long run in the snowy suburbs of Richmond, Virginia. The next day, Scarpetta flies to Miami to spend a few days with her querulous mother and Sindbad, her Siamese cat. In Richmond, Lucy entertains her friends, all from various federal law enforcement agencies; and Marino first apprehends and then befriends Jimmy Simpson, a ten-year-old boy who had been snowballing his house. In the final scene of the novelette, all the characters (including Jimmy’s mother, who seems to catch Marino’s eye) gather in Scarpetta’s warm house on a cold night to enjoy her famous stew.

This book — a special “gift” from Cornwell to her readers — is the perfect holiday gift, and gives the reader insights into her best-known characters that cannot be found in any other work. It is illustrated with photographs that suggest the locales and activities of her characters, and it includes the ingredients for all the dishes described in the story.