Scarpetta Returns! In the twenty-fifth installment of this electrifying, #1 bestselling thriller series, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta faces a brilliant killer who uses advanced science for dark and deadly purposes.
After years away, forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta is back in Virginia, stepping into her old role as chief medical examiner. But returning isn’t easy — she’s once again the outsider, burdened with a difficult secretary and a department riddled with neglect and possible corruption.
She and her husband, Benton Wesley — now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service — have settled in Old Town Alexandria, just five miles from the Pentagon, in a post-pandemic world marked by unrest and political division. Only weeks into the job, Scarpetta is called to a gruesome crime scene near the railroad tracks where a woman’s body has been horrifyingly mutilated. As Scarpetta begins to unravel the case, the investigation takes her dangerously close to home.
Meanwhile, a disaster unfolds aboard a top-secret private space lab, leaving two scientists dead under suspicious circumstances. Scarpetta is recruited to the highly classified Doomsday Commission, charged with investigating sensitive national security threats. Summoned to the White House Situation Room, she’s ordered to uncover the truth behind the deaths. But as she remotely investigates the first crime scene in space, a brutal killer strikes again — and this time, the danger may be even closer than she imagined.
In this latest gripping entry in her groundbreaking series, Patricia Cornwell delivers shocking twists, relentless suspense, and the forensic precision readers love — reaffirming her status as the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer.
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