Book description
Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay
Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has
asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The
handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for
her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to
talk - and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most
bizarre she has ever heard. He says his injuries were sustained in the
course of a murder … that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane
stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it
is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer?
The only thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been
tortured and murdered - and that more violent deaths will follow…
Patricia Cornwell's first novel, POSTMORTEM, was published in 1990 and
won five international awards. Her Scarpetta novels have since become
Number One bestsellers throughout the world.
