Frankie Ames

Frankie Ames is the main antagonist of the Kay Scarpetta novel Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell. Ames is the obsessed stalker of romance author Beryl Stratton Madison, whom Ames later stabbed to death out of revolt. He later killed Cary Harper and provoked the suicides of Sterling Harper and Ames' friend Al Hunt to cover his tracks. Ames would later make Kay Scarpetta his next target, but she would take Ames down.