From one of the world’s number top selling crime writers comes the extraordinary twentieth Kay Scarpetta novel.
A
woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote
wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the
inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles
away in Boston. She has no idea why.
But as events unfold with
alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect that the paleontologist’s
disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a
gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures, and trace evidence from the last
living creatures of the dinosaur age.
When she turns to those
around her, Scarpetta finds that the danger and suspicion have
penetrated even her closest circles. Her niece Lucy speaks in riddles.
Her lead investigator, Pete Marino, and FBI forensic psychologist and
husband, Benton Wesley, have secrets of their own. Feeling alone and
betrayed, Scarpetta is tempted by someone from her past as she tracks a
killer both cunning and cruel.
