People are dying and the circumstance behind their deaths is leading Dr. Kay Scarpetta to believe they are not only connected but connected to her and her family. As the circumstance of the murders become clearer it looks more to others that Lucy and her niece may be involved in the killings. Knowing this can't be true Dr Scarpetta will do whatever she can to stop the authorities from looking at her niece as a suspect and try to find the real guilty person.
For fans of Kay Scarpetta this book brings you back into the exciting world of medical forensics and the actual police work it takes to catch and convict a criminal. Kay, her FBI husband Benton, police Detective Pete Marino, and her niece Lucy work together as a team that works like well oiled machinery. This time though their opponent is smart, patient and determined to accomplish a mission of revenge.
The Story line in FLESH AND BLOOD does not stop with this book and the reader can look forward to an exciting continuation. Although FLESH AND BLOOD is part of a long series of books by Patricia Cornwell about Dr. Kay Scarpetta it can be read as a standalone, you need not read all the other to understand this one but don't let that stop you. Patricia Cornwell delivers with FLESH AND BLOOD.
Itβs Dr. Kay Scarpettaβs birthday, and sheβs about to head
to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI
profiler
husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind
their Cambridge house. Is this a kidsβ game? If so, why
are
all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be
newly
minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino
tells
her thereβs been a homicide five minutes away. A high
school
music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he
unloaded groceries from his car. No one has heard or seen
a
thing.
In this 22nd Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth
finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper
who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of
copper. The shots seem impossible, yet they are so perfect
they cause instant death. The victims appear to have had
nothing in common, and there is no pattern to indicate
where
the killer will strike next. First New Jersey, then
Massachusetts, and then the murky depths off the coast of
South Florida, where Scarpetta investigates a shipwreck,
looking for answers that only she can discover and
analyze.
And it is there that she comes face to face with shocking
evidence that implicates her techno genius niece, Lucy,
Scarpettaβs own flesh and blood.
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