The severely eroded remains of four young couples were discovered one after another, and Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the chief female medical examiner, faced numerous challenges in gathering evidence. She was forced to write "cause of death unknown" eight times consecutively.
Another couple went missing, and the woman's mother was from the upper echelons of the political world. Under immense pressure to solve the case, the chief female medical examiner gradually uncovered the truth, only to find that an important piece of evidence - a mysterious Jack of Hearts - had been deliberately erased from each case. And she herself found herself caught in a greater peril...
Chief Female Medical Examiner: Clues of the Remains Part 1
"Oh, Lord," I exclaimed as I shut the refrigerator door with my hip. Detective Pete Marino, who handled murder cases in Richmond, had been patrolling the streets since midnight. Not long ago, I'd seen him in the morgue when I was extracting bullets from the bodies in his case. He should have been on his way to Gaston Lake for a weekend of fishing by now. As for me, I wanted to work in the garden.
Chief Female Medical Examiner: Clues of the Remains Part 2
It was the criticism he made while shaking his head when he read something displeasing in the morning paper; it was what he loved to say when someone with a Georgia accent considered us not "real Americans"; it was also the comment he murmured out of boredom when he heard lies, drugs, or divorce being discussed. When I was a child living in Miami, he ran a small neighborhood grocery store. Every day at the dinner table, he would recount the events of his day and ask us what we had done that day.
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