In this second volume of heart thumping tales, listeners will be surreptitiously watching the door. For within it we discover that the contents of our lives are not always as faithful as we see them. Friends, lovers, neighbours and enemies we thought we had, the dark we thought we trusted. There are secrets and...
In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president's newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr Kay Scarpetta knows time is short. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Kay must draw upon her own personal resources...