Una nueva entrega de la saga y la mejor novela de la doctora Kay Scarpetta. Es Navidad, y la forense Kay Scarpetta acaba de perder a su amante, Benton Wesley. El último caso de la detective sigue abierto, pues no se ha conseguido esclarecer la autoría de una serie de asesinatos, achacados al mafioso Chandonne. Una conspiración lleva la situación a límites insospechados, hasta el punto de que Scarpetta puede ser procesada por asesinato. Por otra parte, los indicios apuntan a una posible relación entre los crímenes y la muerte de Benton. Atormentada, Kay Scarpetta se plantea abandonar su trabajo y empezar una nueva vida. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The new era of Scarpetta begins... In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel, Patricia Cornwell takes her readers deeper into Kay Scarpetta's heart and soul than ever before.... Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer puts Virginia's Chief Medial Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past. A formidable prosecutor, a female assistant district attorney from New York, is brought into the case-and Scarpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting and unnerving evidence to the contrary. Tested in every way, she turns inward to ask, Where do you go when there is nowhere left?