Paula W. (Paula) reviewed on 8/10/2005 + 19 more book reviews

Great book!!!! This is from the inside cover...Dr Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from South Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Richmond, Virginia's recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he needs Scarpetta's help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: Her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isn't the one who requested her after all' her old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he won't reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent, whom Scarpetta dislikes instantly, meddles with the case. Deprived of assistance from colleagues Benton and Lucy, who are embroiled in what appears to be an unreleated attempted rape by a stalker, Scarpetta is faced with investigating the death of a fourteen-year-old girl, working with the smaalest pieces of evidence-trces that only the most thorough hunters can identify. She must follow the twisting leads and tracks the strange details in order to make the dead speak and to reveal the sad truth that may be more than even she can bear.

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