Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Now freelancing from South Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to her old haunts in Richmond, Virginia, only to encounter a host of baffling and unwelcome surprises as she investigates the death of a fourteen-year-old girl. Reprint.

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Maelys

A good’old Scarpetta like we love ‘em with your psychopathic killer, super-spy Lucy and her team, Marino fit-as-heck and a Benton-Scarpetta tension which releases at the end as it should. So overall, a very pleasant read, very fluent to read and coming full circle which is agreeable after the series around Chandonne... Speaking of the devil... where is he ?! Very surprisingly left out ! Maybe more to come ?

Since Postmortem garnered critical acclaim and a record-breaking five awards for a first crime novel, the Scarpetta novels have often been imitated, but never bettered. Against her own judgement and the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece, Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on a case involving the death of a fourteen-year-old girl. Accompanied by Pete Marino she finds the once familiar territory of her morgue and her department much changed, and the new Chief Medical Examiner treats her with disdain despite the obvious fact that he is in desperate need of her expertise. But professional as ever, she re-examines the evidence and proves the girl was murdered. She also finds trace evidence which matches that found on an accident victim and at the scene where one of Lucy's operatives was attacked. It is not only a forensic puzzle, but opens up the probability that someone is after those closest to Scarpetta. Visit the author's website at www.patriciacornwell.com

Sarah Escorsa

I've read every single Scarpetta novel and the last one I really enjoyed was Black Notice. I think it's actually Cornwell's best novel and the climax of all previous Scarpetta books. I'm afraid I've been disapointed by every single Scarpetta novel Cornwell has written ever since and they just don't seem to do it for me anymore.

danielle bush

I did like this one better than some of the previous books in this series that I've read. However I felt that the ending was rushed?. Like the whole book is all this build up of the case then the bad guy is caught in like the last 5 pages.. I'm going to continue to read them for now, but am hoping they will start to get better.

Trace

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