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The seventeenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from the No. 1 bestselling author
‘America’s most chilling writer of crime fiction’ The Times
It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast, she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesley’s.
When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds a suspicious package – possibly a bomb – waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta’s life finds her embroiled in a deadly plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom Scarpetta’s niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past . . .
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Praise for the groundbreaking series:
‘One of the best crime writers writing today’ Guardian
‘Devilishly clever’ Sunday Times
‘The top gun in this field’ Daily Telegraph
‘Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns’ Mirror
‘The Agatha Christie of the DNA age’ Express
ASIN : B002WWKZLS
Publisher : Sphere (20 Oct. 2009)
Language : English
File size : 1304 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 545 pages
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