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Flesh and Blood

by Patricia Cornwell

A forensic investigation with a family connection

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A forensic investigation with a family connection

A trail of unexplained pennies appears just as Dr. Kay Scarpetta is preparing to leave Cambridge for a Miami vacation. A nearby homicide pulls her into an investigation of precise sniper attacks with no clear link between victims, spanning New Jersey, Massachusetts, and the waters off South Florida. The search brings forensic analysis together with a shipwreck inquiry, while evidence raises questions about Scarpetta’s niece, Lucy. As the 22nd novel in the series, the book places its crime investigation within Scarpetta’s established personal and professional circle.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers following Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series
  • Fans of crime thrillers centered on forensic investigation and serial-sniper cases
  • Readers interested in mysteries that connect an investigation to family ties

Themes

Forensic investigationSerial crimeUnexplained cluesFamily ties

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Book overview

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 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.

--BBC (UK)
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