An investigative reporter is found dead in Virginia's icy waters.
New Year's Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia?s bloodiest
year takes Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River's icy
surface. A diver, Ted Eddings, is dead, an investigative reporter
who was a favourite at the Medical Examiner's office. Was Eddings
probing the frigid depths of the Inactive Shipyard for a story,
or simply diving for sunken trinkets? And why did Scarpetta
receive a phone call from someone reporting the death before the
police were notified?The case envelops Scarpetta, her niece Lucy,
and police captain Pete Marino in a world where both cutting-edge
technology and old-fashioned detective work are critical
offensive weapons. Together they follow the trail of death to a
well of violence as dark and forbidding as water that swirled
over Ted Eddings.