On 12 CD's. 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 & chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, & he begins to talk. 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, & it is he who is being spied on, followed & stalked by the actual killer? The only thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured & murdered
- & that more violent deaths will follow... Since the publication of ' Postmortem', Patricia Cornwell & her creation Kay Scarpetta have become household names & bywords for the best in crime fiction all over the world.