Description:

Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary,

mastering a groundbreaking forensic procedure.And it is

not long before these new skills need to be put into practice.

A young man drops dead, eerily close to Scarpetta's home.

When his body is examined, there are stunning indications

that he may have been alive when he was locked

inside the cooler.

When the revolutionary 3D radiology scans reveal internal

injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen, she realises that

she is fighting a cunning and uniquely cruel enemy. Now it

is a race against time to discover who and why before

more people die...

Told for the first time in many years from the