![]() graduate student has been found killed and ritualistically posed on the campus athletic fields. So the big-brain scientist is in a more meditative mood than usual when she tackles the job waiting for her at the Cambridge Forensic Center, her state-of-the-art facilities as the chief medical examiner of Massachusetts. “I can’t recall or share what at last I could explain to devastated people after I’ve taken care of their dead.” ![]() ![]() The experience has left her in an “amnesiac” state of mind. Patricia Cornwell’s imperious forensic scientist, Kay Scarpetta, shows uncharacteristic signs of vulnerability at the beginning of DUST (Putnam, $28.95), after she returns from a traumatic trip to Newtown, Conn., to help with autopsies of victims of the mass murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School. ![]()
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