Port Mortuary
Kay Scarpetta #18Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: | 9781594134791 |
Publisher: | Large Print Press |
Published: | 6 September, 2011 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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- 1 Postmortem
- 2 Body of Evidence
- 3 All That Remains
- 4 Cruel & Unusual
- 5 The Body Farm
- 6 From Potter's Field
- 7 Cause of Death
- 8 Unnatural Exposure
- 9 Point of Origin
- 10 Black Notice
- 11 The Last Precinct
- 12 Blow Fly
- 13 Trace
- 14 Predator
- 15 Book of the Dead
- 16 Scarpetta
- 17 The Scarpetta Factor
- 18 Port Mortuary
- 19 Red Mist
- 20 The Bone Bed
- 21 Dust
- 22 Flesh and Blood
- 23 Depraved Heart
- 24 Chaos
- 25 Autopsy
- 26 Livid
- 27 Unnatural Death
Port Mortuary
Kay Scarpetta #18Patricia Cornwell
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 sug
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