Cause of death

the long version

New Year's Eve and the fina; murser scene of Virginia's bloodiest year takes Dr Kay Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River's icy surface. Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter who has a favourite at the Medical Examiner's office, is dead. Was he probing the frigid depths of the Inactive Shipyard for a story? And why did Scarpetta receive a phone call from someone reporting the death before the police where notified? -- back cover.