Trace Tom Stoppard this deeply provocative novel reimagines

this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today

Thoresby's master of the guards

triumphant in the capture of Babylon

For lovers of Alexander McCall Smith

the precocious Flavia - when she's not plotting elaborate acts of revenge against her nasty older sisters in her basement chemistry laboratory

Trace Tom Stoppard this deeply provocative novel reimaginesSince POSTMORTEM garnered critical acclaim and a record breaking five awards for a first crime novel, the Scarpetta novels have often been imitated, but never bettered. Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece, Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on a case involving the death of a fourteen year old girl. Accompanied by Pete Marino she finds the once familiar territory of her morgue