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| Series | Kay Scarpetta #9 |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Author | Patricia Cornwell |
| Year | Warner, 1999 |
| First Published | 1998 |
| ISBN | 0-7515-2322-4 |
| Goodreads ID | 1451100 |
| Google Books ID | oge2QgAACAAJ |
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| Series | Kay Scarpetta #9 |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Author | Patricia Cornwell |
| Year | Warner, 1999 |
| First Published | 1998 |
| ISBN | 0-7515-2322-4 |
| Goodreads ID | 1451100 |
| Google Books ID | oge2QgAACAAJ |
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A farmhouse destroyed by fire. A body amongst the ruins.
Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds a body which tells a story of a violent and grisly murder. The fire has come at the same time as another, even more incendiary horror: Carrie Grethen, a killer who nearly destroyed the lives of Scarpetta and those closest to her, has escaped from a forensic psychiatric hospital.
Her whereabouts is unknown, but her ultimate destination is not, for Carrie has begun to communicate with Scarpetta, conveying her deadly — if cryptic — plans for revenge.