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The latest instalment in the internationally acclaimed series of crime novels featuring the medical examiner, Dr Kay Scarpetta.
Florida is full of human predators, and they all give Dr Kay Scarpetta the opportunity and the means to do what she does best – persuading the dead to speak to her. And in Boston, Benton Wesley is working on a secret case involving convicted killers. It is a project which gives Scarpetta deep disquiet, as does the behaviour of her niece, Lucy, who is spending too much time in cheap bars looking for casual pick-ups. The Academy is called when a woman’s body is found in Boston. She has been tortured, sexually abused, her body tattooed with handprints. The same sort of handprints Lucy had seen on the flesh of her latest pick-up. Meanwhile, Scarpetta and Marino are investigating the disappearance of a family in Florida, called in by a concerned neighbour, but as they search and find the tell-tale signs of abduction rather than disappearance, they also discover that someone had assumed the identity of the caller, and she is now dead. They’ve been set up, and it becomes clear that someone is tracking their every move.
About the Author
Patricia Cornwell’s first novel, POSTMORTEM, was published in 1990 and won five international awards. Her Scarpetta novels have since become Number One bestsellers throughout the world. She has also published three police procedurals, HORNET’S NEST, SOUTHERN CROSS and ISLE OF DOGS.
ISBN: 9780751544145
ISBN-10: 0751544140
Series: Scarpetta Novels
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 432
Published: 2nd September 2010
Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.5
x 2.8
Weight (kg): 0.345
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