HarperCollins Publishers Autopsy

The legendary Patricia Cornwell is back with her No.1 bestselling, groundbreaking series following Kay Scarpetta Kay Scarpetta is back, and this time shes right in the path of danger World-renowned forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta and her husband Benton, a psychologist with the US Secret Service, have returned to Virginia. They are headquartered five miles from the Pentagon in a post-pandemic world thats been torn by civil and political unrest. Just weeks into the job, Scarpetta is called to a railway track where a womans body has been shockingly displayed, her throat cut down to the spine. But the trail of clues will lead Scarpetta back to her own neighbourhood. At the same time, a catastrophe occurs in a top-secret lab in outer space, endangering the scientists aboard. Scarpetta is summoned to the White House to find out what happened. As she starts the new investigation, an apparent serial killer strikes again, this time dangerously close to home. Praise for Patricia Cornwell A pioneer of the genre of forensic psychological thriller BBC Devilishly clever Sunday Times The top gun in this field Daily Telegraph Cornwells books run on a cocktail of adrenaline and fear The Times One of the best crime writers writing today Guardian