“Packed with too-close-for-comfort encounters.Upping the nail-biting suspense factor is the story’s breakneck pace.Provides the standard-read excellent-Patricia Cornwell fare.”- The Boston Globe

“Unbearable suspense.an intense book.”- The Toronto Star In Dust, Scarpetta and her colleagues are up against a force far more sinister than a sexual predator who fits the criminal classification of a “spectacle killer.” The murder of Gail Shipton soon leads deep into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology, organized crime, and shocking corruption at the highest levels. She also fears the case may have a connection with her computer genius niece, Lucy. It appears she’s been murdered, mere weeks before the trial in her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial manager, and Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta doubts it’s a coincidence. With unparalleled high-tension suspense and the latest in forensic technology, Patricia Cornwell once again proves her exceptional ability to surprise-and to thrill-in this electrifying Kay Scarpetta novel.Ī body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, and it’s suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineering grad student Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. Livid: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta #26) (Hardcover): The Patricia Cornwell CD Audio Treasury Low Price: Contains All That Remains and Cruel and Unusual (Kay Scarpetta Series #22) (Abridged / CD-Audio):ĭepraved Heart: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta #23) (Hardcover):Ĭhaos: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta #24) (Paperback):Īutopsy: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta #25) (Large Print / Paperback): The Bone Bed (Scarpetta #20) (Paperback): Red Mist: Scarpetta (Book 19) (Paperback): Port Mortuary: Scarpetta (Book 18) (Paperback): Predator: Scarpetta (Book 14) (Paperback):īook of the Dead (Scarpetta #15) (Paperback):

The Last Precinct: Scarpetta (Book 11) (Paperback):īlow Fly: Scarpetta (Book 12) (Paperback): Point of Origin: Scarpetta (Book 9) (Paperback):īlack Notice: Scarpetta (Book 10) (Paperback): Unnatural Exposure: Scarpetta (Book 8) (Paperback): The Body Farm (Scarpetta #5) (Paperback):įrom Potter's Field: Scarpetta (Book 6) (Paperback):Ĭause of Death: Scarpetta (Book 7) (Paperback): Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta #1) (Mass Market):īody of Evidence: Scarpetta 2 (Kay Scarpetta #2) (Mass Market):Ĭruel and Unusual: Scarpetta 4 (Kay Scarpetta #4) (Mass Market): This is book number 21 in the Scarpetta series.

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