Patricia Cornwell delivers the newest engrossing thriller in her
high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.
Depraved Heart: "Void of social duty and fatally bent on mischief."
--Mayes v. People, 806 III. 306 (1883)
Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge,
Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link
lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius
niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy
taken almost twenty years ago.
As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her
niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip and
then others sent soon after raise dangerous legal implications that
increasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her confused, worried, and not
knowing where to turn. She doesn't know whom she can tell--not her FBI
husband Benton Wesley or her investigative partner Pete Marino. Not even
Lucy.
In this new novel, Cornwell launches these unforgettable characters on
an intensely psychological odyssey that includes the mysterious death of
a Hollywood mogul's daughter, aircraft wreckage on the bottom of the sea
in the Bermuda Triangle, a grisly gift left in the back of a crime scene
truck, and videos from the past that threaten to destroy Scarpetta's
entire world and everyone she loves. The diabolical presence behind what
unfolds seems obvious--but strangely, not to the FBI. Certainly that's
the message they send when they raid Lucy's estate and begin building a
case that could send her to prison for the rest of her life.
In the latest novel in her bestselling series featuring chief medical
examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell will captivate readers with the
shocking twists, high-wire tension, and cutting-edge forensic detail
that she is famous for, proving yet again why she's the world's #1
bestselling crime writer.
