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Eddings was murdered. Why did Scarpetta receive a call reporting his death before the police were notified?

How can the fingerprints of a convicted murderer who has been executed turn up on the mutilated corpse of another victim? Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner, investigates.

Dr Kay Scarpetta has to call on all her reserves of courage and skill and the able assistance of her colleagues when she must track down a most dangerous killer.

Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland years ago, now four have been discovered in Virginia.

When the first Posadas County Mystery, Heartshot, published in 1991, Bill Gastner was the county Undersheriff.