The Disappeared

In the bestselling tradition of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta, M. R. Hall's Jenny Cooper makes her debut as a coroner with a detective's eye and a woman with a home life as complicated as her cases.Jenny investigates the case of two young Muslim students who vanished seven years ago -- sufficient time for her to declare them legally dead. The police had concluded that they had fled to Pakistan to traffic in the atrocities of Islamic fanaticism. But as her official inquest progresses, Jenny detects the unmistakable stench of corruption.