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When Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the smart chief medical examiner of Virginia, is not hectic fixing crimes, she's concocting delicious meals in her home. In Scarpetta's Winter Table, Patricia Cornwell takes her readers behind-the-scenes for personal glimpses of her three main figures because they get together to commemorate the week between December 26, "the largest disappointment evening of the year," and New Year's. On your day after-christmas, Scarpetta create her special lasagna cake and Detective Pete Marino produces his "cause-of-death eggnog" (he uses corn alcohol), while Lucy Farinelli (a special adviser with ATF and Scarpettais just relative) moves on an extended run-in the wintry suburbs of Richmond, Virginia.