Identity Unknown is hauntingly original, impossibly clever and devilishly daring. Chris Whitaker

Autopsies can reveal the secrets of the dead.

And this victim is sending Scarpetta a message…

Summoned to an abandoned theme park to retrieve a body,Dr. Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once had an intense love affair with.

The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body,and Giordanos skin is strangely red. Scarpettas niece Lucy believes he wasdropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can revealthe deads secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seemsto have deliberately left her a clue.

As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces,and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that,in her mind, is far more evil…