Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett s specialty is the psychological autopsy an investigation into a person s life to determine whether a death was natural, accidental, suicide, or homicide. She calls herself a deadshrinker instead of a headshrinker: The silence of her patients is a key part of the job s attraction. When Jo is asked to do a psychological autopsy on a living person one with a suspect memory who can t be trusted to participate in his own medical care she knows all her skills will be put to the test.Jo is called to the scene of an aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is behaving erratically. She figures out that he s got anteretrograde amnesia, and can t form new memories. As his thoughts drift away like tendrils of smoke, Jo finds herself racing to save a patient who can walk and talk yet can t help her figure out just what happened to him. For every...
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