
If you want a summer read that will keep you turning the pages whether you’re lying on your beach blanket or on a raft in your pool, Flesh and Blood is the book for you. If you’re looking for an author who delivers a thrilling novel featuring female characters who kick butt and take names, look no further than the #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. And it is there that she comes face to face with shocking evidence that implicates her techno genius niece, Lucy, Scarpetta’s own flesh and blood. First New Jersey, then Massachusetts, and then the murky depths off the coast of South Florida, where Scarpetta investigates a shipwreck, looking for answers that only she can discover and analyze.

The victims appear to have had nothing in common, and there is no pattern to indicate where the killer will strike next.

The shots seem impossible, yet they are so perfect they cause instant death. She is also known as one of the top forensic pathologists in the country. Kay Scarpetta is best known as the beautiful blonde Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia at Richmond. In this taut and engrossing crime novel, Scarpetta finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper. Kay Scarpetta Series by Patricia Cornwell Kay Scarpetta Series 27 primary works 44 total works Dr. Scarpetta and Lucy make a formidable pair in Flesh and Blood, the most recent New York Times bestselling novel by Patricia Cornwell.

Lucy Farinelli is a brilliant free agent who often works for Scarpetta, bringing her computer hacking and helicopter piloting skills to bear as she remorselessly mines for data. When investigating murders, she is fearless and relentless in her search for the truth, and to ensure that victims get justice. Kay Scarpetta is the highly skilled Chief Medical Examiner in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
