Trace (Uk Edition)

TIME WARNER BOOKS, 2005. Near Fine. Since Postmortem garnered critical acclaim and a record-breaking five award s for a first crime novel, the Scarpetta novels have often been imitated, b ut never bettered. Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesle y and her niece, Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consulta nt pathologist on a case involving the death of a fourteen-year-old girl. A ccompanied by Pete Marino she finds the once familiar territory of her morg ue and her department much changed, and the new Chief Medical Examiner trea ts her with disdain despite the obvious fact that he is in desperate need o f her expertise. But professional as ever, she re-examines the evidence and proves the girl was murdered. She also finds trace evidence which matches that found on an accident victim and at the scene where one of Lucy's opera tives was attacked. It is not only a forensic puzzle, but opens up the prob ability that someone is after those closest to Scarpetta.