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From America’s #1 bestselling crime writers comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel.

Abandoning her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, SC, Kay Scarpetta allows an assignment in New York City, where in fact the NYPD provides asked her to analyze an injured man on Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained affected person, Oscar Bane, offers specifically requested about Scarpetta: Scarpetta (Book 16) her, and when she actually has her gloved practical him, he begins to talk-and the storyplot he must tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard.

The injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a murder . that he didn’t commit. Is normally Bane a criminally crazy stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is usually his paranoid story true, and it is he who’s becoming spied on, implemented and stalked from the real killer? The one thing Scarpetta understands for certain is that a female has been tortured and murdered-and more violent deaths will follow. Steadily, an inexplicable and horrifying truth emerges: Whoever is certainly committing the crimes knows where his prey is at all times. Is it a person, a federal government? And what’s the connection between your victims?

In the days that follow, Scarpetta; her forensic psychologist hubby, Benton Wesley; and her niece, Lucy, who has recently formed her own forensic computer analysis firm in New York, will undertake a harrowing chase through cyberspace and the all-too-real streets of the city-an odyssey which will take them at once to places they never understood, and much, way too close to home.

Throughout, Cornwell delivers shocking twists and changes, and the kind of cutting-edge technology that just she can offer. Once again, she proves her exceptional capability to amuse and enthrall.

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