Author(s): Patricia Cornwell

Crime & Thrillers

A New York Times Bestseller -- Patricia Cornwell brings Kay Scarpetta together with Marino, Benton, and Lucy in a way that is reminiscent of the early novels. The point of view is Scarpetta's, and this is her story.As the chief of the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts, a joint venture of the state and federal governments and MIT, Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility and ruin her personally and professionally. A young man drops dead, apparently from a cardiac arrhythmia, eerily close to Scarpetta's new home. But the next morning there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was locked inside the center's cooler.