From Potter's Field
Temple Brooks Gault, the sadistic psychopath who has eluded capture for years, has struck again. FBI consultant Kay Scarpetta sifts relentlessly through strange and baffling new forensic evidence--unaware the reason her nemesis kills is to challenge and taunt her. Now Gault feels the time has...
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Temple Brooks Gault, the sadistic psychopath who has eluded capture for years, has struck again. FBI consultant Kay Scarpetta sifts relentlessly through strange and baffling new forensic evidence--unaware the reason her nemesis kills is to challenge and taunt her. Now Gault feels the time has come to meet Scarpetta--and tries to do so through her young niece, Lucy, who is the brains behind CAIN, the worldwide FBI computer network.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780425154090 (0425154092)
Publish date: August 1st 1996
Publisher: Berkley
Pages no: 369
Edition language: English
Series: Kay Scarpetta (#6)
SPOILERS 30/3 - Like The Body Farm this book's title is false advertising. An even smaller portion of the book was dedicated to what's named in the title - the first victim is originally a Jane Doe and is buried in Potter's Field (her real identity is later discovered and she's moved to a family plo...
Would actually give this one a 4.5, but it was so suspenseful, I decided to go with the 5 since 4.5 was not an option here.
Kay Scarpetta is one of the earliest mystery heroine characters. The plot is still the same as whodunit novels. But the element of Scarpetta's own life gave the story a bit of spice. The dedication of Scarpetta to ID a victim and not to account it as something as a mere evidence. Liked the twist and...
After a while it all got to be too much, Scarpetta came across as more disturbing than one might like.
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