From one of the world's number top selling crime writers comes the
extraordinary twentieth Kay Scarpetta novel.
A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote
wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the
inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles
away in Boston. She has no idea why.
But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect
that the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of
crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures,
and trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age.
When she turns to those around her, Scarpetta finds that the danger and
suspicion have penetrated even her closest circles. Her niece Lucy
speaks in riddles. Her lead investigator, Pete Marino, and FBI forensic
psychologist and husband, Benton Wesley, have secrets of their own.
Feeling alone and betrayed, Scarpetta is tempted by someone from her
past as she tracks a killer both cunning and cruel.