Patricia Cornwell- #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

Patricia Cornwell is known to millions of readers worldwide. She has won nearly every literary award for popular fiction and has authored 29 New York Times bestsellers. The identity of her heroine was forged during the six years she spent working in a chief medical examiner's office in Virginia, when she saw innumerable autopsies being carried out. In  "CHAOS",  twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River on an early Autumn day. It appears she was struck by lightning except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center's director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God.  Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a flurry of bizarre poems from an anonymous cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie. To make matters worse, a venomous media is whipping the public into a frenzy, questioning the seasoned forensics chief's judgment.