While recovering from a career-threatening injury, surgeon
Eli Branch is pulled into the turbulent world of Dr. Liza
French, a colleague he hasn't seen in ten years. Liza uses
their past to lure Eli into a highly-publicized debacle in a
Memphis hospital that has put her own career in jeopardy.
But when the murder of medical personnel at Gates Memorial
appears related to Liza's surgical complication, Eli finds
that more lives are at imminent risk. Eli discovers clues
from the victims that match anatomical art found at the
crime scenes, a connection that leads him to the manuscript
of a sixteenth century anatomist whose methods of dissection
are over four centuries old-but are being reenacted in the
present. Aided by the expertise of forensic pathologist, Dr.
Meg Daily, Eli uncovers a pattern to the escalating deaths
and the search begins for a killer the media and the city
come to know as The Organist.