Author(s): Patricia Cornwell

Crime

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorAfter working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Kay Scarpetta is back in Cambridge. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. And the victim, graduate student Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in unusual cloth and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike.