Trace

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Dr Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from South Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Richmond, Virginia’s recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime.

When she arrives, however, nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in the final stages of demolition, the inept chief isn’t the one who requested her after all, and a glamorous FBI agent meddles with the case.

Deprived of assistance from colleagues Benton and Lucy, who are embroiled in an unrelated case of their own, Scarpetta is faced with investigating the death of a fourteen-year-old girl, working with the smallest pieces of evidence – traces that only the most thorough hunters can identify.