TY - BOOK AU - Cornwell,Patricia Daniels TI - Autopsy SN - 9780008467258 (hbk.) : AV - PS3553.O692 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - HarperCollinsPublishers KW - Scarpetta, Kay, KW - Women pathologists KW - Fiction KW - Crime KW - eflch KW - ukslc KW - Crime & mystery fiction KW - thema KW - Thriller / suspense fiction KW - Adventure fiction KW - Science fiction: Space opera KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - lcsh N1 - Originally published: U.S.: William Morrow N2 - Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia as the chief medical examiner, the state where she launched her storied career. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, she's inherited not only an overbearing secretary, but also a legacy of neglect and potential corruption. She and her husband Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the US Secret Service, have relocated to Old Town Alexandria where she's headquartered five miles from the Pentagon in a post-pandemic world that's been torn by civil and political unrest. Just weeks on the job, she's called to a scene by railroad tracks where a woman's body has been shockingly displayed, her throat cut down to the spine, and as Scarpetta begins to follow the trail, it leads unnervingly close to her own historic neighbourhood ER -