From the world’s number-one bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel.
Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she’s awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino.
A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT and it’s suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineer Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. It appears she’s been murdered, mere weeks before the trial of her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial managers, and Scarpetta doubts it’s a coincidence. She also fears the case may have a connection with her computer genius niece, Lucy.
At a glance there is no sign of what killed Gail Shipton, but she’s covered with a fine dust that under ultraviolet light fluoresces brilliantly in three vivid colors, what Scarpetta calls a mineral fingerprint. Clearly the body has been posed with chilling premeditation that is symbolic and meant to shock, and Scarpetta has reason to worry that the person responsible is the Capital Murderer, whose most recent sexual homicides have terrorized Washington, D.C. Stunningly, Scarpetta will discover that her FBI profiler husband, Benton Wesley, is convinced that certain people in the government, including his boss, don’t want the killer caught.
In Dust, Scarpetta and her colleagues are up against a force far more sinister than a sexual predator who fits the criminal classification of a �spectacle killer.” The murder of Gail Shipton soon leads deep into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology, organized crime, and shocking corruption at the highest levels.
With unparalleled high-tension suspense and the latest in forensic technology, Patricia Cornwell once again proves her exceptional ability to surprise—and to thrill. Views: 420
A selection of five unrelated short stories. In Unrelated, read about a stranded soul in Expanse, while a busy Gargoyle who tells what he sees over time. Meeting Pope Gregory, a fictional Pontiff. A Rusty Chain brings memories for one man. And Top Floor is anything but! Read each one and discover your favorite. Read again and discover something new.A selection of five unrelated short stories. In Expanse, a poor soul alone on an island far too long. In Gargoyle, read a first hand account what one particular Gargoyle sees over time. In Meeting Pope Gregory, get a glimpse into another time and place, maybe Victorian Times. A Rusty Chain brings back childhood memories for one man and understand himself. Top Floor brings us to a mysterious boss in a penthouse office that has a high turnover rate in assistants. See which stories you can relate. Views: 420
Families with nothing to hide don't have so many secretsLife can change in an instant. For Ryan and Karen Lane, it happens on the morning they discover their twelve-year-old daughter's window open, their beloved Maddie missing from her bed.Police investigate. Suspicions swirl. A teenage boy admits he was outside her bedroom window the night she disappeared. A halfway house for convicts recently opened in the neighborhood. The Lane family is thrown into turmoil, then detectives turn their sights on them.No one is ruled out. Not Karen, with her tragic past, who argued with her daughter. Not Ryan, with his violent streak. Not Maddie's thirteen-year-old brother, Tyler, who heard voices in her room the night she vanished.Days, weeks, months, then agonizing years go by without answers, the Lanes fearing that Maddie is gone forever...until a stunning twist shocks everyone, plunging the family deeper into a world of buried secrets whose revelations... Views: 420
If you can't beat them, join them. Octogenarian Myrtle Clover is so annoyed by the infighting at tiny Bradley, North Carolina's town council meetings that she decides on a radical course of action: she'll run for the open seat on the council. After all, she taught most of the elected officials—she should be able to enact some order. But order apparently isn't in the works. This becomes clear when a fellow candidate is found . . . murdered. Myrtle and her senior sidekick Miles must uncover the killer before someone else becomes a lame duck. Views: 420
This Classics ebook is locked-door mystery THE ABANDONED ROOM by Wadsworth Camp. The mystery of a secret room, scene of many murders, is unraveled by Carlos Paredes, the Panamanian Sherlock Holmes. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. KATHERINE HEARS THE SLY STEP OF DEATH AT THE CEDARS II. THE CASE AGAINST BOBBY III. HOWELLS DELIVERS HIMSELF TO THE ABANDONED ROOM IV. A STRANGE LIGHT APPEARS AT THE DESERTED HOUSE V. THE CRYING THROUGH THE WOODS VI. THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE VII. THE AMAZING MEETING IN THE SHADOWS OF THE OLD COURTYARD VII. WHAT HAPPENED AT THE GRAVE IX. BOBBY'S VIGIL IN THE ABANDONED ROOM X. THE CEDARS IS LEFT TO ITS SHADOWS** Views: 420
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