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Title details for Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell - Available

Port Mortuary

#18 in series

by Patricia Cornwell
Kate Burton
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At the beginning of her professional career, when she accepted a scholarship from the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt, Scarpetta found herself ensnared in a gruesome case of hate crimes against two Americans in South Africa. Now, more than twenty years later, her secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base, where she has been immersed in a training fellowship to master the art of CT-assisted virtual autopsy—a procedure the White House has mandated that she introduce into the private sector.
 
As the chief of the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts, a joint venture of the state and federal governments and MIT, and Harvard, Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility and ruin her personally and professionally. A young man drops dead, but when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the Center’s cooler. When 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries—ones that suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties—Scarpetta realizes that she is fighting a cunning, cruel, and invisible enemy. Now it is a race against time to discover who and why before more people die.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Kay Scarpetta

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    November 30, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780307877338
      • File size: 361237 KB
      • Duration: 12:32:34

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      n this latest installment in the Scarpetta series, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, noted forensic pathologist, is now director of the Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. While she's been away at Dover Air Force Base on a six-month assignment, things have gone very wrong at the CFC; the bodies are piling up; her second in command, Jack Fielding, has gone missing; and Kay may be the next target. This dark, brooding story, told in primarily the first person, is mired in detail that lends little and irritates much. Kate Burton's delivery is often rushed. Her credible variation of accents lends interest but cannot overcome the listener's weariness in the face of so much introspection and useless melodrama. Not Cornwell's best effort. A.C.P. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

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