Port Mortuary

Kay Scarpetta's military past comes forward unexpectedly when a fellowship at Dover Air Force Base intersects with a case at her new Cambridge Forensic Center that threatens to destroy everything she has built. Port Mortuary moves between Scarpetta's present crisis and the origins of her relationship with the military, and the case itself involves medical technology and forensic questions at the edges of what science can currently verify. The eighteenth Scarpetta novel operates on a larger institutional canvas than most.

Kate Burton brings precision and intelligence to Scarpetta's voice, handling the novel's forensic density with the same authority that the character herself brings to a scene. At twelve and a half hours, Port Mortuary is a demanding listen that rewards attention to its procedural and personal threads, and Burton's performance holds the two strands together through the novel's complex timeline.