Trace Abi Elphinstone and how sides can be

and how sides can be switched for you

And now they are all his mother has left

Or could it be just the escape she needs right now

On a primitive colony planet a renegade criminal's chance encounter with an utterly alien entity unleashes the most primal of all our fears

To some a ruthless warrior and master tactician

Trace Abi Elphinstone and how sides can beSince POSTMORTEM garnered critical acclaim and a record breaking five awards for a first crime novel, the Scarpetta novels have often been imitated, but never bettered. Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece, Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on a case involving the death of a fourteen year old girl. Accompanied by Pete Marino she finds the once familiar territory of her morgue