After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Exa
miner Kay Scarpetta returns home to recover, but an unsettling call drives her s
traight back to work. The body of a young woman has been discovered inside the s
heltered gates of MIT, draped in an unusual cloth and posed in a way that is too
deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination reveals t
hat the body is covered in a fine dust that under ultra-violet light fluoresces
blood-red, emerald-green and sapphire-blue, and physical evidence links this to
another series of disturbing homicides in Washington, DC.
