This is book number 13 in the Scarpetta series. As I have stated before, it’s really difficult to discuss her books without giving anything away. Let’s just say that without a doubt, this has got to be the best yet.
Usually, when you read her books you can get an idea on how everyone is intertwined early on. Although you never really know “who done it” until the last minute, the bad guys in this one are not revealed until the end, leaving the reader with a sense of WTF? Even if you think you know, you have no idea.
On top of that, the main characters, Kay Scarpetta, Benton Wesley, Scarpetta’s niece Lucy and Pete Marino are developing in ways that you could not have imagined in the first few books. They are growing, and with that the reader grows with them. There are certain scenes when you want to jump in the book and slap a couple of them for being…themselves, and not seeing what really matters. But it’s good that way because the characters seem more realistic, like people you would run into at the gas station or grocery store.
I still do not recommend starting her series in the middle; you won’t get a true sense of what I am talking about without reading them in order. Of course I may be a little OCD when it comes to reading things sequentially, but then again that is why they are written that way.
I think one of the reasons I like Cornwell's Scarpetta Series so well is because the cases are always completely different and twisted in their own right and that its really about the 4 main characters and how their lives are intimately connected with their cases. From story one, the bad guys are always trying to get Scarpetta's attention for one reason or another. Just read them.
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