CORNWELL, Patricia - Trace - [Kay Scarpetta # 13] - (Paperback)

Book still in a good condition.    >>>   Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Richmond, Virginias recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he needs Scarpettas help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isnt the one who requested her after all; her old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he wont reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent, whom Scarpetta dislikes instantly, meddles with the case.   -   Deprived of assistance from colleagues Benton and Lucy, who are embroiled in what first appears to be an unrelated attempted rape by a stalker, Scarpetta is faced with investigating the death of a fourteen-year-old girl, working with the smallest pieces of evidencetraces that only the most thorough hunters can identify. She must follow the twisting leads and track the strange details in order to make the dead speakand to reveal the sad truth that may be more than even she can bear