How long does it take to read Unnatural Exposure?
Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell takes about 6 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 8 of Kay Scarpetta
Previous: Cause of Death Next: Point of Origin
About 6 hours 44 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 367 pages, about 100,925 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 60 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Dr. Kay Scarpetta is newly returned from Dublin, where she was called in to examine the remains of a murder victim whose limbs and head were expertly severed - a signature of a cunning serial killer on the loose again after an eight-year sabbatical - when the same killer apparently strikes again, this time much closer to home. After Scarpetta investigates the murder scene, the killer boldly contacts her through the Internet, inviting her to download photos of the murder victim and signing off with a chilling screen name: deadoc. When Scarpetta determines that the victim was exposed to a rare smallpox-like virus before she died and, later, that she herself may have been infected, she realizes that she is up against a killer with access to an incredibly sophisticated arsenal of deadly force - a killer with a specific animus directed toward her.
Subjects: Fiction, Forensic pathologists, Kay Scarpetta (Fictitious character), Medical examiners (Law), Women detectives, Women physicians
