[RS]Cause of Death Patricia Cornwell Audiobook

[RS]Cause of Death Patricia Cornwell Audiobook
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Dr. Scarpetta: In Over Her Head?

?1997 Shawn Vidmar
Cause of Death is the seventh book in the series involving Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the chief Medical Examiner for Richmond, Va. It places the good doctor in Sandbridge, Va., in a hovel between the Navy’s Inactive Ship Yard and the Back Bay Wildlife Refuge. She is called to investigate the untimely death of a healthy adult male. Could it be accidental, for the victim was using very old scuba equipment? Or could it be murder, and if so who would want to kill him? More importantly, what did he know?

The victim, Ted Eddings, an aggressive investigative reporter is found suspended thirty feet below the Elizabeth River’s icy surface and illegally tangled in the moorings of a submarine grounded in the Navy’s Inactive Ship yard. Scarpetta must done a dry suit and descend to the crime scene, before she will allow him to be transported to her office. She is treated with contempt by the local boy’s club involving the sheriff’s department and the supervisors at the ship yard.

Scarpetta is out of her element, covering for an absent Dr. Mant who has left no forwarding address, and wants to return to her familiar surroundings of Richmond. She soon uncovers discrepancies in her case, such as evidence disappearing, phony phone calls announcing deaths which haven’t been reported and footprints in the snow around the Dr. Mant’s house. She tries to leave but her unseen fan club apparently infiltrates every nuance in which she is involved.