After her resignation as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and the horrifying
events which threatened her life in The Last Precinct, Kay Scarpetta has
abandoned her elegant home in Richmond and is quietly living in Florida,
beginning to get some balance back in her life and slowly establishing herself
as a private forensic consultant. But her past won't let her rest, and her
grief for Benton Wesley continues to grow, not diminish, as does the rage
within Lucy, her niece. Then the architect of her changed fortunes contacts
her from his cell on death row: deformed, blinded by Scarpetta's own actions,
incarcerated in Texas strongest prison, Jean-Baptiste Chardonne still has the
ability to terrify. But, unkown to Scarpetta, there are other forces behind
the wolfman's apparent actions, invisibly shepherding her and those closest to
her towards eliminating those who threaten them all. And it is all
orchestrated by the one man in her life who knows every nuance of her soul.
Visit the author's website at www.patricia-cornwell.com
After her resignation as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and the horrifying
events which threatened her life in The Last Precinct, Kay Scarpetta has
abandoned her elegant home in Richmond and is quietly living in Florida,
beginning to get some balance back in her life and slowly establishing herself
as a private forensic consultant. But her past won't let her rest, and her
grief for Benton Wesley continues to grow, not diminish, as does the rage
within Lucy, her niece. Then the architect of her changed fortunes contacts
her from his cell on death row: deformed, blinded by Scarpetta's own actions,
incarcerated in Texas strongest prison, Jean-Baptiste Chardonne still has the
ability to terrify. But, unkown to Scarpetta, there are other forces behind
the wolfman's apparent actions, invisibly shepherding her and those closest to
her towards eliminating those who threaten them all. And it is all
orchestrated by the one man in her life who knows every nuance of her soul.
Visit the author's website at www.patricia-cornwell.com
