{"title": "Unnatural Exposure", "covers": [258523, 1225944, 1737820, 4724788, 6572563, 6390977, 6783441, 6804203, 7935023, 8332825, 10308278, 496728, 13499364, 12344445, 2157992, 11031486, 1010169, 8944659, 7635807, 10450827, 12334139, 14439649, 11443266], "subject_places": ["Virginia", "Richmond", "Dublin", "Ireland", "United States", "Dublin (Ireland)"], "first_publish_date": "1997", "key": "/works/OL134384W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL21976A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "dewey_number": ["813/.54", "813.54"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "Forensic pathologists", "Kay Scarpetta (Fictitious character)", "Large type books", "Medical examiners (Law)", "Women detectives", "Women physicians", "Scarpetta, kay (fictitious character), fiction", "Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths", "Virginia, fiction", "Forensic pathologists, fiction", "Serial murders, fiction", "Serial murder investigation", "Women pathologists", "Smallpox", "Medical fiction", "Detective and mystery stories", "Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character)", "Women detective", "History", "French language", "Ficci\u00f3n", "M\u00e9dicos forenses (Derecho)", "Women physicians, fiction"], "description": "Dr. Kay Scarpetta is newly returned from Dublin, where she was called in to examine the remains of a murder victim whose limbs and head were expertly severed - a signature of a cunning serial killer on the loose again after an eight-year sabbatical - when the same killer apparently strikes again, this time much closer to home.\r\n\r\nAfter Scarpetta investigates the murder scene, the killer boldly contacts her through the Internet, inviting her to download photos of the murder victim and signing off with a chilling screen name: deadoc.\r\n\r\nWhen Scarpetta determines that the victim was exposed to a rare smallpox-like virus before she died and, later, that she herself may have been infected, she realizes that she is up against a killer with access to an incredibly sophisticated arsenal of deadly force - a killer with a specific animus directed toward her.", "subject_people": ["Dr. Kay Scarpetta", "Kay Scarpetta (Fictitious character)"], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "NIGHT FELL CLEAN and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air."}, "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "NIGHT FELL CLEAN and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air."}], "series": [{"series": {"key": "/series/OL334858L"}, "position": "8"}], "number_of_editions": 1, "genres": ["/tags/OL175T"], "latest_revision": 37, "revision": 37, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-19T14:05:11.183754"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-30T20:11:02.535213"}}