Series: Book 19 in the Kay Scarpetta series
Rating: ***
Tags: Fiction, General, Mystery & Detective, Mystery, Women Sleuths, Thriller, Lang:en
Summary
The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1
bestselling crime writer.
Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy
chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months earlier, Kay
Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an
inmate has information not only on Fielding, but also on a
string of grisly killings. The murder of an Atlanta family
years ago, a young woman on death row, and the inexplicable
deaths of homeless people as far away as California seem
unrelated. But Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her
to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding's death
and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning of
something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of
conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale.
And she is the only one who can stop it. A knife-edged thriller based on the exploits of the toughest
female pathologist ever to conduct an autopsy...If you like
your fiction fast-paced with a scientific twist, Cornwell
delivers once again, and if you are new to Scarpetta, you are
sure to be hooked by the end of the first chapter Irish
Examiner
Patricia Cornwell's most recent bestsellers
include
Port Mortuary, The Scarpetta Factor, and
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper-Case Closed.
Among her earlier works are
Postmortem-the only novel to win five major crime
awards in a single year-and
Cruel and Unusual, which won Britain's prestigious
Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel of 1993. Dr. Kay
Scarpetta herself won the 1999 Sherlock Award for best
detective created by an American author.Review
About the Author