"Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a highly suspicious
death scene in a historic home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when an emergency
alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages, immediately
begins playing . . . and seems to be from her niece Lucy. But how can it be?
It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago.
As Scarpetta watches she comes to grips with frightening secrets about her
niece, whom she loves like a daughter. That first clip and others sent soon
after raise dangerous implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta and
leave her confused, alarmed, and not knowing where to turn. She doesn't know
whom she can tell--not her FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, or her
investigative partner, Pete Marino. Not even Lucy. Cornwell launches
these unforgettable characters on an intensely psychological odyssey that
includes the bizarre death of a Hollywood mogul's daughter, wreckage on the
bottom of the sea in the Bermuda Triangle, a grisly gift left in the back of a
crime scene truck, and videos from the past that threaten to destroy
Scarpetta's entire world and everyone she loves. The diabolical presence and
singularly "depraved heart" behind what unfolds seems obvious--but
strangely, not to the FBI. Certainly that's the message they send when they
start harassing Lucy and begin building a case that could send her to prison
for the rest of her life. In the latest novel in her bestselling series
featuring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell captivates readers again
with the jolting twists, high-wire tension, and cutting-edge forensic detail
for which she is renowned, proving yet again why she is the world's number one
bestselling crime writer." I
thought this was somewhat better than some of Cornwell's recent novels.
I've kind of felt like I was trudging through mud, reading a few of her more
recent works but this moved much more quickly for me. Fans of her work
will probably like this one.
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