Patricia Cornwell is credited with kick-starting the current craze for the forensic pathology sub-genre in crime fiction, and her heroine Kay Scarpetta is again ahead of the wind in PORT MORTUARY (Little, Brown, 18.99, hb). Scarpetta employs a 3D system of imagination to assist her autopsy the latest murder victim to lead up on her table, but it`s the victim`s use of advanced technology that appears to be the motivation behind his killing.
