Audio Book Description:
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, digs into a case more bizarre than any she has ever faced, one thathas produced not only unusual physical evidence, but also tantalizing clues about the innerworkings of an extremelycunningand criminal mind. She and her team- Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and her niece Lucy- track the odd connectionsbetween several horrificcrimes and the people who are the likelysuspects. In Florida, Scarpettais investigating the disappearance of four people who`ve been abducted from their quiet home. Then Marino finds somethingin a nearby house that stops him cold: a woman who has been viciously murdered in her bed. As one psychopath, safely behind barsand the subject of a classified scientific study at a Harvard-affiliatedpsychiatric hospital, teases Scarpetta with tips that could be fact- orfantasy- the number of killers on the loose seems to multiply.
