Unnatural Exposure
On the trail of a serial killer, Dr Kay Scarpetta follows the forensic footprints of a victim's life unconvinced that the murder is the work of the same killer. She begins to believe someone is on the point of releasing the smallpox virus back into a world which has destroyed all vaccine stocks.
On the trail of a serial killer, Dr Kay Scarpetta follows the forensic footprints of a victim's life unconvinced that the murder is the work of the same killer. She begins to believe someone is on the point of releasing the smallpox virus back into a world which has destroyed all vaccine stocks.
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ISBN:
9780316639842 (0316639842)
Edition language: English
Series: Kay Scarpetta 5 (#8)
Starts off in Dublin! Scarpetta is investigating a serial killer who appears to have killed in Dublin as well as Richmond, possibly starting in Ireland. And then another victim turns up. But all is not what it seems.
It's odd reading this in 2012, fourteen years after its publication; it must have seemed absolutely up to the minute in '98, with its online goings-on (on AOL!) and its virtual-reality recreation of the crime scene by Scarpetta's whiz-kid niece. And the supervirus/biological terror fears of our time...
This is Kay Scarpetta #8, where Kay comes back from Ireland after looking at a dismember case there that may have some significance to one on in Virginia. Another case pops up that also has some resemblance - and then the killer starts emailing pictures to Kay. But what's the real story behind thi...
Kay Scarpetta is starting to get on my nerves
By this point I found Scarpetta unbearable. She's stopped resembling any human, and become some sort of paranoid superhero. [Of course, someone always is out to get her, but it's different someones all the time]