Dust (Scarpetta) - Hardcover

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399157573 ISBN 13: 9780399157578

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 2013

Synopsis

From the world’s number-one bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel.

Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she’s awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino.

A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT and it’s suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineer Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. It appears she’s been murdered, mere weeks before the trial of her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial managers, and Scarpetta doubts it’s a coincidence. She also fears the case may have a connection with her computer genius niece, Lucy.

At a glance there is no sign of what killed Gail Shipton, but she’s covered with a fine dust that under ultraviolet light fluoresces brilliantly in three vivid colors, what Scarpetta calls a mineral fingerprint. Clearly the body has been posed with chilling premeditation that is symbolic and meant to shock, and Scarpetta has reason to worry that the person responsible is the Capital Murderer, whose most recent sexual homicides have terrorized Washington, D.C. Stunningly, Scarpetta will discover that her FBI profiler husband, Benton Wesley, is convinced that certain people in the government, including his boss, don’t want the killer caught.

In Dust, Scarpetta and her colleagues are up against a force far more sinister than a sexual predator who fits the criminal classification of a spectacle killer.” The murder of Gail Shipton soon leads deep into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology, organized crime, and shocking corruption at the highest levels.

With unparalleled high-tension suspense and the latest in forensic technology, Patricia Cornwell once again proves her exceptional ability to surpriseand to thrill.

About this title

Review:

"An act of narrative virtuosity even for this author of world-class page-turners."--"The Toronto Star"

"Upping the nail-biting suspense factor is the story's breakneck pace."--"The Boston Globe"

"Cornwell's grasp on her beloved character is as sure as ever."--Liz Smith

Book Description:

Scarpetta is on the trail of a killer in the new outstanding novel by the bestselling author of The Bone Bed

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0399157573
• ISBN 13: 9780399157578
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 495