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Scarpetta Condition:Well Read that he is more thanLeaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The story he has to tell her turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard.