Determined to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, who was murdered six months ago, Kay is tricked into leaving Cambridge, Mass., and going to the Georgia Prison for Women near Savannah. Kay is there to see inmate Kathleen Lawler, who molested Jack as a child and later bore their daughter, Dawn Kincaid, a diabolically vicious killer.
When Ex-Manhattan ADA Jaime Berger asks for Kay's help exonerating a woman on death row for the murder of a doctor and his family, Kay finds herself uncovering inexplicable links to the murder of an Atlanta family, the deaths of homeless people in California, and more.
With gripping suspense, tons of technology and fascinating characterization, Cornwell keeps readers glued to the pages -- all 512 of them.
Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy
chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay
Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an
inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a
string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family
years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable
deaths of homeless people as far away as California seem
unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections that compel
her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding's
death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning
of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of
conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international
scale. And she is the only one who can stop it.
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