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She was born in Miami, grew up in Montreat, North Carolina, and now lives and works in Boston. Cornwell, a licensed helicopter pilot and scuba diver, actively researches the cutting-edge forensic technologies that inform her work. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia. Includes an exclusive excerpt from the riveting next novel in the Kay Scarpetta series, Depraved Heart. Beyond the Scarpetta series, Patricia has written a definitive book about Jack the Ripper, a biography and two more fiction series among others. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. Her novels have won numerous prestigious awards including the Edgar, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, the Anthony, the Macavity and the Prix du Roman d’Aventures. Patricia Cornwell is recognized as one of the world’s top bestselling crime authors with novels translated into thirty-six languages in more than 120 countries. Includes an exclusive excerpt from the riveting next novel in the Kay Scarpetta series, DEPRAVED HEART. 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. In this 22nd Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. Is this a kids’ game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there’s been a homicide five minutes away. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house.

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