New Year`s Eve and the final murder scene of Virginia`s bloodiest year takes Scarpetta thirty feet below the Elizabeth River`s icy surface.A diver,Ted Eddings,is dead,an invastigative reporter who was a favourite at the Medical Examiner`s office.Was Eddings probing the frigid depths of the Inactive Shipyard for a story,or simply diving for sunken trinkets? And why did Scarpetta receive a phone call from someone reporting the death before the police were notified?The case envelopes Scarpetta,her niece Lucy,and police captain Pete Marino in a world where both cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned detective work are critical offensive weapons.Together they follow the trail of death to a well of violence as dark and forbidding as the water that swirled over Ted Eddings.The seventh Dr Kay Scarpetta novel!