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Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings, including the slaughter of a Savannah family years earlier. She can see a pattern to these killings, but who is behind them and why? As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it.
About the author
Patricia Cornwell, geboren 1956 in Miami, arbeitete als Gerichtsreporterin und Computerspezialistin in der forensischen Medizin, bevor sie mit ihren Thrillern um Kay Scarpetta internationale Erfolge feierte und mit hohen literarischen Auszeichnungen bedacht wurde. Die Autorin lebt derzeit in New York und Florida.
