The Last Precinct
Kay Scarpetta #11Patricia Cornwell
ISBN: | 9780399146251 |
Publisher: | Putnam Publishing Group |
Published: | 1 October, 2000 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
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- 1 Postmortem
- 2 Body of Evidence
- 3 All That Remains
- 4 Cruel & Unusual
- 5 The Body Farm
- 6 From Potter's Field
- 7 Cause of Death
- 8 Unnatural Exposure
- 9 Point of Origin
- 10 Black Notice
- 11 The Last Precinct
- 12 Blow Fly
- 13 Trace
- 14 Predator
- 15 Book of the Dead
- 16 Scarpetta
- 17 The Scarpetta Factor
- 18 Port Mortuary
- 19 Red Mist
- 20 The Bone Bed
- 21 Dust
- 22 Flesh and Blood
- 23 Depraved Heart
- 24 Chaos
- 25 Autopsy
- 26 Livid
- 27 Unnatural Death
The Last Precinct
Kay Scarpetta #11Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell's legendary crime fiction creation, Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, has logged a host of fans among mystery readers and, within the bounds of her fictional world, an equally impressive tally of individuals intent on causing her grievous physical or psychological harm. The 11th Scarpetta novel, The Last Precinct, doesn't add any new names to the second roster. Instead, in a sweeping narrative gesture toward retrospection (less-than-fervent fans might whisper "or stagnation"), the novel depends largely on ground already covered in its predecessors, Black Notice and, to a lesser extent, Point of Origin. All the familiar faces--friend and foe--are here: police captain Marino, Kay's niece Lucy, the so-called Werewolf murderer, and (in memoriam) Kay's lover Benton Wesley and his killer, Carrie Grethen. Kay, who nearly killed the Werewolf in self-defense as Black Notice came to a close, now finds herself the target of a corrupt police investigation that will dredge her darkest secrets from the deepest corners of her past. Torn between a desire to clear her name and the instinct of a wounded animal to turn against even its would-be rescuers, Kay sifts through the forensic evidence that seems to link Chandonne to other horrific events in her past, up to and including Wesley's murder. Physical analysis, however, will not be enough to right her up-ended world. Instead, Kay must rely on the strategi
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