Author: Patricia Cornwell
Year: 2016
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Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller
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9780062436719
0062436716 |
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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."
This book is part of the "Kay Scarpetta" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Depraved Heart"
First published in 2015
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 | "Flesh and Blood"
First published in 2014
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 | "Dust"
First published in 2013
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 | "The Bone Bed"
First published in 2012
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 | "Red Mist"
First published in 2011
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 | "Port Mortuary"
First published in 2010
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 | "The Scarpetta Factor"
First published in 2009
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 | "Scarpetta"
First published in 2008
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 | "Book of the Dead"
First published in 2007
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 | "Predator"
First published in 2005
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 | "Trace"
First published in 2004
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 | "Blow Fly"
First published in 2003
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 | "The Last Precinct"
First published in 2000
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 | "Black Notice"
First published in 1999
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 | "Point of Origin"
First published in 1998
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 | "Unnatural Exposure"
First published in 1997
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 | "Cause of Death"
First published in 1996
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 | "From Potter's Field"
First published in 1995
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 | "The Body Farm"
First published in 1994
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 | "All That Remains"
First published in 1992
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 | "Body of Evidence"
First published in 1991
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 | "Postmortem"
First published in 1990
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