We have made it ten books in to this series, and it goes up and down in quality like a rollercoaster. As always, Patricia Cornwell does an amazing job of keeping up with advancements in procedures, technology, and forensics. She does a great job pairing the most up to date techniques with the timeline of the books, and she does her research well. In this installment, Kay receives a letter written by Benton prior to his death and left to someone else to give to her a year after his death. This sends her reeling, as it would anyone. Scarpetta and Marino work a case of a body found in a shipping container. The body belongs to a member of a well to do family from France. Lucy is, of course, somehow involved in this case. (She is rapidly becoming my least favorite character next to crazy Temple and crazy Carrie.) Marino and Scarpetta have to contend with a saboteur in her own office, as well as someone attempting to murder Kay. I was a little unimpressed with the way things suddenly dropped off at the end, but it wasn't the worst book in the series to date.