A reclusive writer is dead. And her final manuscript has
disappeared ...Someone is stalking Beryl Madison. Someone who spies
on her and makes threatening, obscene phone-calls. Terrified, Beryl
flees to Key West - but eventually she must return to her Richmond
home. The very night she arrives, Beryl inexplicably invites her
killer in ...Thus begins for Dr Kay Scarpetta the investigation of
a crime that is as convoluted as it is bizarre. Why would Beryl
open the door to someone who brutally slashed and then nearly
decapitated her? Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is
Beryl''s enigmatic relationship with a prize-winning author and the
disappearance of her own manuscript. As Scarpetta retraces Beryl''s
footsteps, an investigation that begins in the laboratory with
microscopes and lasers leads her deep into a nightmare that soon
becomes her own. For more about Patricia Cornwell and her books
visit her website at www.patricia-cornwell.com
關於作者:
Patricia Cornwell''s series of crime novels featuring the
forensic examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta are international bestsellers.
She is also the author of two police procedurals and the biography
of Ruth Graham. She divides her time between Virginia and New
York.