Description
Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell is a suspense thriller and the eighteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series. Dr Kay Scarpetta is drawn to Dover Air Force Base and Port Mortuary due to her secret military ties, performing autopsies on fallen soldiers, while simultaneously managing her new Cambridge Forensic Center, the first civilian facility in the U.S. to conduct virtual autopsies. When a young man dies unexpectedly near her home, Scarpetta discovers through advanced 3-D radiology that he may have been alive when placed in the cooler, revealing evidence of previously unseen internal injuries. The case hints at a broader conspiracy capable of causing mass casualties. Assisted by Benton Wesley, Marino, and her niece Lucy, Scarpetta races against time to uncover the truth and confront a cunning, invisible adversary.
The novel combines high-tech forensic investigation, military and civilian procedural insight, and suspenseful narrative, appealing to readers of crime thrillers, forensic fiction, and complex mystery narratives.
