Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Scarpetta Factor, the seventeenth in the series, finds the familiar cast of characters together again in New York. Dr. Kay Scarpetta—despite her busy schedule and continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN—offers her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Marino is working for the NYPD; Benton Wesley uses his forensic psychological expertise at Kirby and Bellevue; and Lucy continues to dazzle with her expertise in forensic computer investigations as she works yet another case with NY prosecutor Jaime Berger. Throughout, Cornwell delivers shocking twists and turns, and the kind of cutting-edge technology that only she can. Once again she proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall.