01946cam a2200361 4500 134724588 TxAuBib 20101129120000.0 100817s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010034650 9780399157219 0399157212 9780142428719 014242871X TxAuBib Cornwell, Patricia Daniels. Port mortuary / Patricia Cornwell. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2010. 496 p. ; 25 cm. Scarpetta novel, A ; 18 Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell's eighteenth Scarpetta novel, is literally a port for the dead. In this fast-paced story, a treacherous path from Scarpetta's past merges with the high- tech highway she now finds herself on. We travel back to the beginning of her professional career, when she accepted a scholarship from the Air Force to pay off her medical school debt. Now, more than twenty years and many career successes later, her secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base, where she has been immersed in a training fellowship. As the chief of the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts, a joint venture of the state and federal governments, MIT and Harvard, Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new facility and ruin her personally and professionally. Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character) Fiction. United States Dept. of Defense Fiction. Medical examiners (Law) Fiction. Forensic pathologists Fiction. Women physicians Fiction. Terrorism Prevention Fiction. Cambridge (Mass) Fiction. Mystery fiction. Medical novels. Legal stories. A Scarpetta novel ; 18.