A Difficult Woman

While working at the public morgue to keep her licence current, Anne Harriman, the chief pathologist of pharmaceutical giant Bauer-Ritter, is called to examine a body and is stunned to recognise the murdered woman as her best friend.

With hopes to conduct further investigations on Giselle's body, Anne is instead surprised to meet with resistance.

Anne is given permission to sit in on the interrogation of Dominic Martin, with whom Giselle had been having an affair, and learns some upsetting information. When the serial rapist strikes again, a new suspect is put forth.

Anne is mystified when Dominic opposes political independence for the French Pacific nations at the conference, and she begins to suspect that Giselle's conspiracy-like theories may have had some basis in truth.