Autopsies can reveal the secrets of the dead.
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And this victim is sending Scarpetta a message...
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Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body,*Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved.*While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had an*intense love affair with Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship.
The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body,*and Giordano's skin is strangely red. Scarpetta's niece Lucy believes he was*dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal*the dead's secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems*to have deliberately left her a clue.
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As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces,*and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that,*in her mind, is far more evil . . .
