Predator (Kay Scarpetta) - Softcover

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425210278 ISBN 13: 9780425210277

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, 2006

Synopsis

Florida is full of human predators, and they all give Dr Kay Scarpetta the opportunity and the means to do what she does best - persuading the dead to speak to her. And in Boston, Benton Wesley is working on a secret case involving convicted killers. It is a project which gives Scarpetta deep disquiet, as does the behaviour of her niece, Lucy, who is spending too much time in cheap bars looking for casual pick-ups. The Academy is called when a woman's body is found in Boston. She has been tortured, sexually abused, her body tattooed with handprints. The same sort of handprints Lucy had seen on the flesh of her latest pick-up. Meanwhile, Scarpetta and Marino are investigating the disappearance of a family in Florida, called in by a concerned neighbour, but as they search and find the tell-tale signs of abduction rather than disappearance, they also discover that someone had assumed the identity of the caller, and she is now dead. They've been set up, and it becomes clear that someone is tracking their every move.

About this title

Review:

'When she is this good, she is hard to beat.' (New Statesman)

'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns.' (The Mirror)

Book Description:

The latest instalment in the internationally acclaimed series of crime novels featuring the medical examiner, Dr Kay Scarpetta.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0425210278
• ISBN 13: 9780425210277
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 453