From Potter's Field

Patricia Cornwell


In this sixth suspense thriller featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta, sadistic serial killer Temple Brooks Gault strikes again. When Scarpetta and her colleagues, Benton Wesley and Pete Marino, arrive on a bloody scene in Central Park, they recognize Gault's signature. But who is the young woman? As Scarpetta tries to sort out the conflicting forensic clues, another body is found in the squalid subway tunnels deep below Manhattan where many of New York's homeless live. Gault infiltrates CAIN, the FBI's top secret system, and sends taunting messages as his butchery continues, moving terrifyingly closer to Scarpetta herself.

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