Patricia Cornwell / Predator

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Florida is full of predators, from the animals who thrive in
is humid heat to the humans who stalk the air-conditioned
malls, and they all give Dr Kay Scarpetta, now Director of
Forensic Science and Medicine at the National Forensic
Academy, the opportunity and the means to do what she
does best - persuading the dead to speak to her.
 
In the icy chill of Boston, Benton Wesley is working on a
secret project involving convicted killers, one of whom
appears to confess to an even higher number of murders
than the authorities had known about' lt is a project that gives
Scarpetta deep disquiet, as does the behaviour of her niece
Lucy who is spending too much time drinking and indulging
in casual pick-ups in cheap bars.
 
The Academy is called in to assist in the discovery of a young
woman's remains in Massachusetts. She has been tortured'
sexually abused, her body tattooed with handprints' The same
sort of handprints Lucy had seen on the flesh of her latest
pick-up. Meanwhile, Scarpetta and Marino are investigating
the disappearance of a family in Florida. A neighbour had
appealed to them directly insisting that the local police were
not taking the case seriously. But as they search and find the
tell-tale signs of abduction rather than disappearance, they
also discover that someone had assumed the identity of
the caller, and she is now dead. They’ve been set up' And it
becomes terrifyingly clear that somebody is tracking their
every move.
 
With her unique combination of high-powered story-telling
and formidable forensic knowledge, Patricia Cornwell
has again created a novel that is intriguing, chilling and
forcefully readable.
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