Port Mortuary

Port Mortuary the title of Patricia Cornwells eighteenth
Scarpetta novel is literally a port for the dead. In this
fast-paced story a treacherous path from Scarpettas past
merges with the high- tech highway she now finds herself
on. We travel back to the beginning of her professional
career when she accepted a scholarship from the Air Force
to pay off her medical school debt. Now more than twenty
years and many career successes later her secret military
ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base where she has
been immersed in a training fellowship. As the chief of
the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts a joint
venture of the state and federal governments MIT and
Harvard Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could
shut down her new facility and ruin her personally and
professionally