Patricia Cornwell: Cause of Death (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
An investigative reporter is found dead in Virginia's icy waters...
New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year takes Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. A diver, Ted Eddings, is dead, an investigative reporter who was a favourite at the Medical Examiner's office. Was Eddings probing the frigid depths of the Inactive Shipyard for a story, or simply diving for sunken trinkets? And why did Scarpetta receive a phone call from someone reporting the death before the police were notified?

The case envelops Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, and police captain Pete Marino in a world where both cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned detective work are critical offensive weapons. Together they follow the trail of death to a well of violence as dark and forbidding as water that swirled over Ted Eddings.

Patricia Cornwell: Cause of Death. Sphere, ISBN: 9780751544688 (January, 2011), 384 p., £7.99.

Patricia Cornwell: Cause of Death (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
Ten years after its initial publication, this "tense, gutwrenching, and scary" Scarpetta favorite has been reissued with a stunning new cover. Also featuring a new introduction by Cornwell, Cause of Death is sure to entice readers, old and new alike.

Patricia Cornwell: Cause of Death. With a new introduction by the author. Berkley Books, ISBN: 0425213382 (January, 2007), 356 p., $9.99.

Patricia Cornwell: Cause of Death (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
An investigative reporter is found dead in Virginia's icy waters...
New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia's bloodiest year takes Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. A diver, Ted Eddings, is dead, an investigative reporter who was a favourite at the Medical Examiner's office. Was Eddings probing the frigid depths of the Inactive Shipyard for a story, or simply diving for sunken trinkets? And why did Scarpetta receive a phone call from someone reporting the death before the police were notified?

The case envelops Scarpetta, her niece Lucy, and police captain Pete Marino in a world where both cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned detective work are critical offensive weapons. Together they follow the trail of death to a well of violence as dark and forbidding as water that swirled over Ted Eddings.

Patricia Cornwell: Cause of Death. Warner Books, ISBN: 0751530506 (January, 2011), 400 p., £5.99.

Patricia Cornwell: Cause of Death (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
Dr. Kay Scarpetta plunges into the murky depths of a ship graveyard to recover the very human remains of Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter. What kind of story was Eddings chasing below the icy surface of the Elizabeth River?

Patricia Cornwell: Cause of Death. Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN: 0425158616 (September, 1997), 356 p., $7.99.

Patricia Cornwell: Cause of Death (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
It is New Year's eve and Kay Scarpetta is staying alone in a weathered cottage owned by her deputy who is on compassionate leave in London. Suddenly the phone rings, breaking the silence.

A body has been found in the murky waters of the Inactive Naval Shipyard. In spite of the Navy's reluctance to allow her in the area, Dr. Scarpetta knows she must examine the corpse as it was found, suspended among the cables, thirty feet below the surface.

The deceased is Ted Eddings, a dedicated investigative reporter and a favourite visitor at the Medical Examiner's office. While most people assume that he drowned looking for Civil War remains, Kay Scarpetta knows that it was murder, by cyanide poisoning - but proving it would not be so easy.

The discovery of a book at Eddings's home brings police captain Pete Marino onto the scene. It is an evil "bible", the property of a fascist, quasi religious group called the New Zionists.

Patricia Cornwell: Cause of Death. Little, Brown, ISBN: 0316878863 (October, 1996), 342 p., £16.99.