The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the worlds number 1 bestselling crime writer. In Alberta Canada an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site & at the Cambridge Forensic Center Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then with shocking speed events begin to unfold. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind all this? & whom can Scarpetta trust? Her lead investigator Pete Marino & FBI husband Benton Wesley are both unhappy with her because of personnel changes at the CFC & her niece Lucy has become even more secretive than usual. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own this time
- against an enormously powerful & cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.