When a formidable prosecutor, assistant district attorney from New York, is brought into the case, Scarpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting and unnerving evidence to the contrary.

It is the week before Christmas. She wonders if she will end up like other TV personalities: her own stereotype. Watch a Video. Patricia Cornwell. A Scarpetta Novel Ser. Dewey Decimal. Number of Pages.