Scarpetta: Patricia Cornwell

This book had a lot going on. Kay Scarpetta is a medical examiner who is brought to a hospital to interview a "little" person suspected of murdering his girlfriend. The evidence collected shows that the man is paranoid and not tall enough to have strangled his girlfriend in the manner she was murdered. There are underlying sexual tones thoughout the book between Scarpetta's niece and another agent, Berger, as well as tones of guilt between Scarpetta and her old partner Marino who had tried to sexually assult her in the last book. In the end they find out, after another person (who wrote for the same newspaper "Gotham Gotcha" as the deceased girlfriend) is murdered, that the policeman in charge of the investigation was the murderer. He was involved with the girlfriend and had met her when he worked at the dermatologist she visited.