Five years after being sacked as Chief Medical Examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond
Virginia and she is back with a vengeance. A vengeance not of her own making ... A stunning
exercise in psychology and suspense accompanied by a dazzling display of detail. Trace
provides blinding evidence of Patricia Cornwell at her best. Bringing Kay Scarpetta back to the
once-familiar territory of ther morgue and her department she plunges her heroine - and her
legion of followers - into an environment thas bas become familiar fascinating and
irresistible to readers across the globe.