Port Mortuary
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Hear Angie speaking to Patricia Cornwell as she celebrates 20 years of bestsellers with the nail-biting Kay Scarpetta thriller, Port Mortuary
Patricia Cornwell celebrates 20 years of bestsellers with the 18th nail-biting Kay Scarpetta thriller, Port Mortuary.
The drama unfolds through Scarpetta’s eyes, as Cornwell returns to writing in the first person, taking us inside a working mortuary and into the pathologist's mind in a relentless and often obsessive search for clues.
Dr Kay Scarpetta has spent six months on duty for the armed forces medical examiner at Port Mortuary, a military air base where bodies are received from the battlefield. Scarpetta’s training in the art of virtual autopsies – the use of 3-D imaging radiology and CT scans in the morgue – will be essential as her new headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts will be the first civilian facility in the US to use this technology.
The death of a young scientist eerily close to Scarpetta’s home proves baffling when the revolutionary 3-D radiology scans reveal internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. Robotic technology made for warfare seems to be appearing on the street and Scarpetta and her team are fighting a cunning and cruel enemy.
Patricia Cornwell is one of the world’s major international best-selling authors, translated into 36 languages across more than 50 countries. She is a founder of the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine and a member of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital’s National Council, where she is an advocate for psychiatric research.
Published by Little Brown, it's out now priced £18.99 Available as an e-book and audio book
