Chaos Author:Patricia Cornwell In the quiet of twilight, on a steaming late summer day twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by a sudden colossal force, possibly lightning -- yet there is no evidence of a storm brewing that night Dr. Kay Scarpetta decides at the scene that this is no accid... more »ental Act of God, and is like something much more sinister. As Scarpetta sifts through the increasingly complicated evidence before her, she is sure the physical and emotional chaos wrought by this master mind is the most dangerous and disturbing she has ever encountered.« less