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With this specific book, best-selling author Patricia Cornwell produced among offense fiction’s many powerful heroines: gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell’s present for mixing leading edge criminology with nerve-shattering suspense makes this book a genuine contemporary classic. Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that's paralyzed the town. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign with a brilliant serial-killer whose signature provides precious few hints.