<B>Autopsies can reveal the secrets of the dead.</B><BR /> &#160;<BR /><B>And this victim is sending Scarpetta a message...</B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> Summoned to an abandoned theme park to retrieve a body,&#160;Dr. Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once had an intense love affair with.<BR /><BR /> The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body,&#160;and Giordano&rsquo;s skin is strangely red. Scarpetta&rsquo;s niece Lucy believes he was&#160;dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal&#160;the dead&rsquo;s secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems&#160;to have deliberately left her a clue. &#160;&#160;&#160;<BR /><BR /> As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces,&#160;and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that,&#160;in her mind, is far more evil...