Port mortuary /

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

Port mortuary / Patricia Cornwell. - London : Sphere, 2011. - 488 p. ; 20 cm. - Kay Scarpetta Series . - Kay Scarpetta Series (Sphere) .

When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover who and why before more people die.

978-0-7515-4392-6


Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character)


United States. Department of Defense


American fiction
Detective and mystery stories
Medical fiction
Legal stories
Medical novels
Medical examiners (Law)
Forensic pathologists
Women physicians
Terrorism--Prevention


Cambridge (Mass.)

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