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. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. 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. 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. “Cornwell has created a character so real, so compelling, so driven that this reader has to remind herself regularly that Scarpetta is just a product of an author’s imagination.”-USA Today “Cornwell’s instincts are dead-on.” -Chicago Sun Times There she comes face-to-face with shocking news that implicates her niece, Lucy-Scarpetta’s own flesh and blood. First it was New Jersey, then Massachusetts, and then the murky depths off the coast. There is no pattern to indicate where the killer will strike next. The shots seem impossible to achieve, yet they are so perfect they cause death in an instant. A high school teacher was shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. Is this a kids’ game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Then she learns there’s been a homicide five minutes away.
Kay Scarpetta is about to head to Miami for a vacation when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their home. “This is in many ways the best of the recent Scarpetta novels, boasting an involving story and some fine writing.”-Booklist on Flesh and Blood Dr.
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