''All That Remains'' is a

crime fiction Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, ...

novel by Patricia Cornwell. It is the third book of the Dr. Kay Scarpetta series. A killer is stalking young couples, and the remains of 8 youngsters have been found dead over a couple of years. The book is closely based on the

Colonial Parkway Killer The Colonial Parkway murders were the serial murders of at least eight people in the U.S. state of Virginia between 1986 and 1989. The killings mostly took place along the Colonial Parkway, a 22-mile long thoroughfare that cuts through the Coloni ...

, a suspected serial killer who is thought to have murdered 8 people in

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in the 1980s. In real life the cases are still unsolved though, as described in the

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documentary ''Lovers’ Lane Murders'' from 2021. As Cornwell's novel made many believe that the Colonial Parkway murders had been solved, father-daughter true crime authors Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester issued their book ''A special kind of evil'' in 2017, providing new information from the investigations.Pardoe and Hester: ''A special kind of evil''
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Characters

* Kay Scarpetta - Chief Medical Examiner. *Benton Wesley -

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Profiler. *Pete Marino - Detective Lieutenant in the

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Police Department. *Abby Turnbull - ''

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'' reporter. *Mark James - FBI Special Agent, Dr. Scarpetta's ex-lover from law school *Pat Harvey - National Drug Policy Director, mother of one of the victims. *Steven Spurrier - Murderer of the named victims.

Victims

*Dog Dammit *Jill Harrington and Elizabeth Mott *Bruce Philips and Judy Roberts *Jim Freeman and Bonnie Smyth *Ben Anderson and Carolyn Bennett *Susan Wilcox and Mike Martin *Deborah Harvey and Frederick Cheney

Notes

External links

Author's Official Website
1992 American novels Novels by Patricia Cornwell Novels set in Richmond, Virginia American crime novels Charles Scribner's Sons books {{1990s-crime-novel-stub