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PORT MORTUARY by Patricia Cornwell - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKSee all titles by Patricia Cornwell.
From the world's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel.
Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell's 18th Scarpetta novel,
is literally a port for the dead. In this fast-paced story, a
treacherous path from Scarpetta's past merges with the high tech highway
she now finds herself on. We travel back to the beginning of her
professional career, when she enlisted in the Air Force to pay off her
medical school debt and found herself ensnared in a gruesome case of
what seemed to be vicious, racially motivated hate crimes against two
Americans in South Africa. Now, more than twenty years and many career
successes later, her secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air
Force Base, where she has been immersed in a training fellowship to
master the art of CT-assisted virtual autopsy--a procedure the White
House has mandated that she introduce in the private sector.
As
the chief of the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts, a
joint venture of the state and federal governments and MIT, 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 Cambridge
home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning
indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a
pouch and locked insider the Center's cooler. Various 3-D radiology
scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any
Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy
to cause mass casualties. She realizes that she is fighting a cunning
and cruel enemy that is invisible as she races against time to discover
who and why before more people die.
In Port Mortuary,
Patricia Cornwell brings Scarpetta together with Marino, Benton, and
Lucy in an intimate way that is reminiscent of the early novels, and we
welcome a voice we haven't heard in years. The point of view is
Scarpetta's, and this is her story.
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