It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit
crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro
bono to New York City''s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But
in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a
string of dramatic and unsettling events. She is asked live on the
air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished
and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast, she
receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of
Benton Wesley''s. When she returns after the show to the apartment
where she and Benton live, she finds a suspicious package ?
possibly a bomb ? waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the
apparent threat on Scarpetta''s life finds her embroiled in a deadly
plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex
crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom
Scarpetta''s niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past...
關於作者:
Patricia Cornwell is the 2008 winner of the Galaxy British Book
Awards'' Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year ? the first
American ever to win this prestigious award. Postmortem was the
only novel to win five major crime awards in a single year and
Cruel and Unusual won the coveted Gold Dagger Award in 1993.