New York Times Bestseller In this relaunch of the electrifying landmark #1 bestselling
thriller series chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts those responsible for two
wildly divergent and chilling murders. Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta has come almost
full circle returning to Virginia the state where she launched her storied career as the
chief medical examiner. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for
many years she's inherited both an overbearing secretary and a legacy of neglect and potential
corruption. She and her husband Benton Wesley now a forensic psychologist with the U.S.
Secret Service have relocated to Old Town Alexandria where she's headquartered five miles
from the Pentagon in a post-pandemic world that's been torn apart by civil and political
unrest. After just weeks on the job she's called to a scene by railroad tracks?a woman's body
has been shockingly displayed her throat cut down to the spine?and as Scarpetta begins to
follow the trail it leads unnervingly close to her own historic neighborhood. At the same time
a catastrophe occurs in a top secret laboratory in outer space endangering at least two
scientists aboard. Appointed to the highly classified Doomsday Commission that specializes in
sensitive national security cases Scarpetta is summoned to the White House and tasked with
finding out exactly what happened. But even as she remotely works the first potential crime
scene in space an apparent serial killer strikes again very close to home. This latest novel
in the groundbreaking Kay Scarpetta series captivates readers with the shocking twists
high-wire tension and forensic detail that Patricia Cornwell is famous for proving once again
why she's the world's #1 bestselling crime writer.
