Depraved Heart

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers (australia) Pty Ltd
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: Reprint

Description: 480 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: From the worlds number one bestselling crime writer comes the haunting and irresistible new Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel Depraved Heart Depraved Heart: "Void of social duty and fatally bent on mischief." Mayes v. People, 806 III. 306 (1883) Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a highly suspicious death scene in a historic home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages, immediately begins playing . . . and seems to be from her niece Lucy. But how can it be Its clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. As Scarpetta watches she comes to grips with frightening secrets about her niece, whom she loves like a daughter. That first clip and others sent soon after raise dangerous implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her confused, alarmed, and not knowing where to turn. She doesnt know whom she can tell not her FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, or her investigative partner, Pete Marino. Not even Lucy. Cornwell launches these unforgettable characters on an intensely psychological odyssey that includes the bizarre death of a Hollywood moguls daughter, 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 Scarpettas entire world and everyone she loves. The diabolical presence and singularly "depraved heart" behind what unfolds seems obvious but strangely, not to the FBI. Certainly thats the message they send when they start harassing Lucy 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 medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell captivates readers again with the jolting twists, high-wire tension, and cutting-edge forensic detail for which she is renowned, proving yet again why she is the worlds number one bestselling crime writer. "

ISBN: 9780732299163