Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell
I was less irritated with the decisions of the characters but the science was still the star of the show. We have a dead body in a landfill that has a mysterious rash. But this body mirrors other bodies from a serial killer. Then we get another body on a small fishing island with a similar rash and realize that the first body was just disguised to look like the serial killer to disguise the rash. We have biological warfare on our hands; someone is engineering a smallpox like virus and trying to spread it throughout the country. But, outside of the fishing island they only get one more victim: Kay's morgue assistant Wingo. I was sad that he died, but it wasn't unexpected when he revealed earlier in the story that he was HIV positive. What was surprising was who the mastermind behind the virus was: a respected colleague and scientist. But, she was bitter for being overlooked yet again for a promotion that instead went to a man and decided that she was going to get the recognition she deserved one way or another. Unfortunately for her, Kay didn't get anything more than a bad flu and was able to be there when she got arrested. Said scientist got sick and died from her own virus before she could be put on trial. We are eight book into this series and so far each of the mysteries have been unique and the science has been interesting.
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