It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s 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 kids’ 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 there’s been a homicide five minutes … 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, Scarpetta’s own flesh and blood.
Includes an exclusive excerpt from the riveting next novel in the Kay Scarpetta series, DEPRAVED HEART.
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best if you have read previous books and know tje history.of the charactets
I really really liked this book & couldn’t put it down! I love the way Patricia Cornwell digs deep into the stories she writes so I get very involved with the characters! I’ve all her books & especially love the Kay Scarlett’s series!
Love the Scarpetta series.
Characters in the Scarpetta series are old friends — and we keep getting to know more about them.
GOOD BOOK BUT COULD DO WWITHOUT MARINO C HARACTER WHICH IS A DISTRACTION
I don’t like her new books as good as the first ones when she started writing
very dark
Very disappointed, thought I had purchased a complete story not a cliff hanger on top of a good.deal of filler of her trips, cooking and how rich her niece is. Don’t waste your money
Usual Patricio Cornwell excellence.
More a story about Jack than who done normal