Trace: Scarpetta (Book 13)

Trace: Scarpetta (Book 13)

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR<br><br>Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Richmond, Virginia€s recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he needs Scarpetta€s help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isn€t the one who requested her after all; her old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he won€t reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent, whom Scarpetta dislikes instantly, meddles with the case. <br><br>Deprived of assistance from colleagues Benton and Lucy, who are embroiled in what first appears to be an unrelated attempted rape by a stalker, Scarpetta is faced with investigating the death of a fourteen-year-old girl, working with the smallest pieces of evidence€"traces that only the most thorough hunters can identify. She must follow the twisting leads and track the strange details in order to make the dead speak€"and to reveal the sad truth that may be more than even she can bear€¦