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Patricia Cornwell delivers the newest engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.

Depraved Heart: -Void of social duty and fatally bent on mischief.-

--Mayes v. People, 806 III. 306 (1883)

Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years...

Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when she receives a text message with a video link that seems to be from her niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken years ago.

As Scarpetta watches she comes to grips with frightening secrets. That first clip and others sent soon after raise dangerous implications that isolate Scarpetta, leaving her confused and not knowing whom she can tell--not her FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, or her investigative partner, Pete Marino. Not even Lucy.

Cornwell launches...

Als ein Drohbrief von Carrie Grethen auf Kay Scarpettas Schreibtisch landet, bekommt die Gerichtsmedizinerin es mit der Angst zu tun. Jahre zuvor hatte Grethen, damals Komplizin des Serienkillers Temple Gault, alles daran gesetzt, nicht nur Scarpettas Leben, sondern auch das ihrer Nichte Lucy zu ruinieren, bevor die beiden sie hinter Gitter bringen konnten. Jetzt schwört Grethen Rache. Eigentlich ist sie in einer geschlossenen Anstalt untergebracht. Eigentlich ... Dann wird Scarpetta zu einem mutmaßlichen Tatort gerufen: Das Anwesen des Medienmoguls Kenneth Sparkes ist abgebrannt, samt...

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. Kay Scarpetta is about to head to Miami for a vacation when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their home. 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. A high school teacher was shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. Yet no one heard or saw a thing.

Soon more victims surface. The shots seem...