#1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorPatricia Cornwell delivers the twenty-third engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay ScarpettaDepraved Heart: “Void of social duty and fatally bent on mischief.” —Mayes v. People, 806 III. 306 (1883)Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when an emergency alert sounds on her … Cambridge, Massachusetts, when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece, Lucy. But how can it be? It’s clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago.
As Scarpetta watches, she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip and then others sent soon after raise dangerous legal implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her confused, worried, and not knowing where to turn. She doesn’t know whom she can tell—not her FBI husband, Benton Wesley, or her investigative partner, Pete Marino. Not even Lucy.
In this new novel, Cornwell launches these unforgettable characters on an intensely psychological odyssey that includes the mysterious death of a Hollywood mogul’s daughter, aircraft 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 behind what unfolds seems obvious—but strangely, not to the FBI. Certainly that’s the message they send when they raid Lucy’s estate 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 chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell will captivate readers with the shocking twists, high-wire tension and cutting-edge forensic detail that she is famous for, proving yet again why she’s the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer.
“Dr. Kay Scarpetta . . . [is] an awesome force in the field of forensic science.” —The New York Times Book Review
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I have read past books by this author—she does a great job painting the “ picture “ of her story. The problem I had was the way the ending came together abruptly—I was left with, “that’s it???”
the author never disappoints….great reading each and every time
It wasn’t as good as all her other bioks
I enjoy everything Kay Scarpetta does, right or wrong.
Great read. Kept your interest from start to finish. Kept you guess on out come.
not as good as usual Scarpetta novels – but still hooked.
The BEST yet from Patricia Cornwell!
I debated purchasing this novel I don’t enjoy Scarpetta as an obsessively paranoid character who doesn’t/can’t trust anyone including her husband, niece, staff, or friends. I understand the history of this series, but is carrying on the same “evil” through more books really what is best for the series and Cornwell fans? Not for me!
Love to read all her books
Great read.
Not one of her better ones. Too much just jumping from person to person and place to place without connection!
Of course suppensful quick moving
I learn a lot about the human body just reading these mysteries.
Patricia Cornwell is one of my favorite authors who normally does not disappoint. This book was a little tangled with all of the government agencies.
This was the first Patricia Cornwall book I put down unfinished. I used to love the Kay Scarpetta series, but this one seems to ramble.
Hard to go wrong with Ms. Cornwell!
Too, too much dialogue about systems and computers. Miss the old Pat Cornwell hard hitting mystery, with pathology thrown in.
Candidly, lost interest and never finished.
Not as good as some of her books but worth a read.
I need to quit picking up PC books. I use to think they were entertaining but this one was boring.
I I have read all of her books and loved them but Carrie got too far out for me and I didn’t want to read anymore of it. After several chapters . It was disappointing for me.