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Port Mortuary
496 pages
A chilling, high-stakes forensic thriller where cutting-edge medical technology uncovers a uniquely cruel enemy.
What it feels like
This propulsive thriller plunges the reader into a dread-soaked world where cutting-edge forensic science meets unimaginable cruelty. The narrative balances the cool, clinical precision of advanced medical technology with a rapidly accelerating sense of urgency. As shocking discoveries are made through virtual autopsies and radiological scans, the atmosphere shifts from intellectual curiosity to chilling, high-stakes tension. The prose is sharp and medically detailed, grounding the escalating dread in chillingly plausible science. It is an experience defined by a frantic race against time, where every new piece of data raises the stakes. Readers who crave intense, technologically advanced medical mysteries featuring brilliant professionals facing off against cunning adversaries will find themselves completely absorbed by this urgent, chilling read.
- Mood
- dread-soaked
- chilling
- tense
- Tone
- clinical
- urgent
- serious
- suspenseful
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- cutting-edge forensics · hidden cruelty · the burden of expertise · technological discovery
- The writing
- Sharp and medically precise, balancing technical forensic detail with a rapidly accelerating sense of thriller pacing.
- The arc
- Begins with the cool precision of scientific discovery before plunging into a frantic, dread-fueled race against a uniquely cruel threat.
- Who it's for
- Fans of high-stakes forensic thrillers who love watching a brilliant medical examiner use cutting-edge technology to outsmart a cunning enemy.
Content notes
- medical procedures
- autopsy details
- murder
- terrorism themes
- fear of being buried alive
About the book
Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long before these new skills urgently need to be put into practice. A young man drops dead, apparently from a heart condition, eerily close to Scarpetta's home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler. When the revolutionary 3D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen, Scarpetta realizes that this is a case of murder - and that she is fighting a cunning and uniquely cruel enemy. Now it is a race against time to discover who and why before more people die. But that time is running out...
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