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#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.

In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning--except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center's director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God.

Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a flurry of bizarre poems from an anonymous cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie. Though subsequent lab results support Scarpetta's conclusions, the threatening messages don't stop. When the tenth poem arrives exactly twenty-four hours after Elisa's death, Scarpetta begins to suspect the harasser is involved, and sounds the alarm to her investigative partner Pete Marino and her husband, FBI analyst Benton Wesley.

She also enlists the help of her niece, Lucy. But to Scarpetta's surprise, tracking the slippery Tailend Charlie is nearly impossible, even for someone as brilliant as her niece. Also, Lucy can't explain how this anonymous nemesis could have access to private information. To make matters worse, a venomous media is whipping the public into a frenzy, questioning the seasoned forensics chief's judgment and "a quack cause of death on a par with spontaneous combustion."

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This book is part of the "Kay Scarpetta" series.
Here are some other books from this series:

Dust First published 2013 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:4.6/10

Trace First published 2004 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:4.6/10

Book of the Dead First published 2007 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:4.3/10

Postmortem First published 1990 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:7.3/10

Red Mist First published 2011 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:3.1/10

Scarpetta First published 2008 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:3.9/10

The Scarpetta Factor First published 2009 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:4.3/10

Scarpetta's Winter Table First published 1998 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:1.3/10

Body of Evidence First published 1991 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:6.4/10

All That Remains First published 1992 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:6.2/10

The Body Farm First published 1994 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:6.6/10

From Potter's Field First published 1995 Rank: , Original Star Rating: , Adjustred Star Rating: , Pop Rating:6/10

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