Includes an exclusive excerpt from the riveting next novel in the Kay Scarpetta series, DEPRAVED HEART. 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. 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. Along the way, the series also features FBI profiler Benton Wesley, Kay’s genius niece Lucy Farinelli, and. She is also known as one of the top forensic pathologists in the country.

The victims appear to have had nothing in common, and there is no pattern to indicate where the killer will strike next. Kay Scarpetta is best known as the beautiful blonde Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia at Richmond. The shots seem impossible, yet they are so perfect they cause instant death. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers another enthralling thriller in her high-stakes forensic series starring Kay Scarpetta. 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.

A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. 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 away. 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. DVDs and Cds have been resurfaced and are guaranteed to play. All Books are in good readable condition.

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