Trace Abi Elphinstone Or could it be just

Or could it be just the escape she needs right now

Sean Dixons first novel is an intellectual

a practised seductress

The Opposite House is about the disquiet that follows us across places and languages

words are weapons and secrecy reigns

Trace Abi Elphinstone Or could it be justSince POSTMORTEM garnered critical acclaim and a record breaking five awards for a first crime novel, the Scarpetta novels have often been imitated, but never bettered. Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece, Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on a case involving the death of a fourteen year old girl. Accompanied by Pete Marino she finds the once familiar territory of her morgue