Dust

Dust by Patricia Cornwell, 495 pages

This is the latest in the Kay Scarpetta series. Marino has left Scarpetta’s employ and gone back to the police force. Kay is alone because Benton is in D.C. helping with the Capitol Murder profile. When Marino calls her for a case, Kay is less than pleased, because she is ill, and still shaky from the last case of terrible mass murders. This book is fairly typical of Patricia Cornwell, but I personally feel that the angst between Kay Scarpetta and Pete Marino is getting old.