Autopsy

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Just weeks into the job, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called to a scene by railroad tracks where a woman’s body has been shockingly displayed, her throat cut down to the spine – and the trail of clues leads unnervingly close to her own historic neighbourhood.

At the same time, a catastrophe occurs in a top-secret laboratory in outer space, endangering at least two scientists aboard. Appointed to the highly classified Doomsday Commission, Scarpetta is summoned to the White House and tasked with finding out exactly what happened.

But even as she remotely works the first potential crime scene in space, an apparent serial killer strikes again, dangerously close to home.