A New York Times bestseller, A Globe and Mail bestseller -- Cornwell?s work has been translated into 32 languages across more than 35 countries. She is regarded as one of the top international bestselling authors. Her most recent bestsellers include Port Mortuary, The Scarpetta Factor, and Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed. Among her earlier works are Postmortem -- the only novel to win five major crime awards in a single year -- and Cruel and Unusual, which won Britain?s prestigious Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel of 1993. Dr. Kay Scarpetta herself won the 1999 Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author. This is Patricia Cornwell?s 19th novel to feature forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta. Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information not only on Fielding but on a string of grisly killings.
