MysteryLarge Print Edition* A New York Times Bestseller* A Literary Guild Main Selection* A Doubleday Book Club Main Selection* A Mystery Guild Main SelectionAlways packed with unrelieved tension and constant surprises, a new novel from Patricia Cornwell is cause for celebration.Virginias chief medical examiner, Kay Scarpetta, is called in to examine the remains of a woman found in a landfill, her body dismembered in the same expert way shed seen before. And while Scarpetta is investigating, the bold killer contacts her through the Internet, inviting her to download the police photos, and signs off with the chilling name, deadoc. When Scarpetta and her niece discover that the victim was exposed to a rare smallpox-like virus before she died, she realizes that theyre up against a killer with access to an incredible arsenal of deadly force and now its directed at her!
