Unnatural Exposure

About “Unnatural Exposure”

A 1997 novel by Patricia Cornwell. Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns from Dublin, where she examined a murder victim whose limbs and head were expertly severed, the signature of a cunning serial killer resurfacing after an eight-year sabbatical, when the same killer apparently strikes again closer to home. The killer contacts Scarpetta online as "deadoc," and she discovers the victim was exposed to a rare smallpox-like virus, raising fears she herself has been infected.