Someone is stalking Beryl Madison Someone who spies on her and makes threatening, obscene phonecalls to the reclusive writer Terrified, Beryl flees to Key West the very night she returns, Beryl inexplicably invites her killer in Did she know her killer? Adding to the intrigue is Beryl's enigmatic relationship with a prizewinning author, and the disapearance of Beryl's own manuscript Chief Medical Examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta heads an investigation that begins in the laboratory, and then leads her deep into a nightmare that soon becomes her own