Forensic psychiatrist Jo Becketts specialty is the psychological autopsyan investigation into a persons life to determine whether a death was natural, accidental, suicide, or homicide. She calls herself a deadshrinker instead of a headshrinker The silence of her patients is a key part of the jobs attraction. When Jo is asked to do a psychological autopsy on a living personone with a suspect memory who cant be trusted to participate in his own medical careshe knows all her skills will be put to the test.Jo is called to the scene of an aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is behaving erratically. She figures out that hes got anteretrograde amnesia, and cant form new memories. As his thoughts drift away like tendrils of smoke, Jo finds herself racing to save a patient who can walk and talk yet cant help her figure out just what happened to him.
