A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed Scarpetta begins to suspect the paleontologists disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder inexplicable tortures & trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age. When she turns to those around her Scarpetta finds that the danger & suspicion have penetrated even her closest circles. Her niece Lucy speaks in riddles. Her lead investigator Pete Marino & FBI husband Benton Wesley have secrets of their own. Feeling alone & betrayed Scarpetta is tempted by someone from her past as she tracks a killer both cunning & cruel. ...

The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the worlds number 1 bestselling crime writer. In Alberta Canada an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site & at the Cambridge Forensic Center Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then with shocking speed events begin to unfold. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind all this? & whom can Scarpetta trust? Her lead investigator Pete Marino & FBI husband Benton Wesley are both unhappy with her because of personnel changes at the CFC & her niece Lucy has become even more secretive than usual. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own this time
- against an enormously powerful & cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.
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A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed Scarpetta begins to suspect the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder inexplicable tortures & trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age. When she turns to those around her Scarpetta finds that the danger & suspicion have penetrated even her closest circles. Her niece Lucy speaks in riddles. Her lead investigator Pete Marino & FBI husband Benton Wesley have secrets of their own. Feeling alone & betrayed Scarpetta is tempted by someone from her past as she tracks a killer both cunning & cruel. ...

A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed Scarpetta begins to suspect the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder inexplicable tortures & trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age. When she turns to those around her Scarpetta finds that the danger & suspicion have penetrated even her closest circles. Her niece Lucy speaks in riddles. Her lead investigator Pete Marino & FBI husband Benton Wesley have secrets of their own. Feeling alone & betrayed Scarpetta is tempted by someone from her past as she tracks a killer both cunning & cruel. ...

A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed Scarpetta begins to suspect the palentologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder inexplicable tortures & trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age. When she turns to those around her Scarpetta finds that the danger & suspicion have penetrated even her closest circles. Her niece Lucy speaks in riddles. Her lead investigator Pete Marino & FBI husband Benton Wesley have secrets of their own. Feeling alone & betrayed Scarpetta is tempted by someone from her past as she tracks a killer both cunning & cruel. ...

Car mechanic & sometime shapeshifter Mercy Thompson has learned the hard way why her race was almost exterminated. When European vampires immigrated to North America they found Mercy's people had a hidden talent
- for vampire slaying. Unfortunately for Mercy the queen of the local vampire seethe has discovered her true identity. She's also furious when she learns Mercy has crossed her & killed one of her vampires. Mercy may be protected from direct reprisals by the werewolf pack (and her interesting relationship with its Alpha) but that just means Marsilia will come after Mercy some other way. So Mercy had better prepare to watch her back.
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An excavation at the lost gardens of Earlsacre Hall is called to a halt when a skeleton is discovered under a 300 year old stone plinth a corpse that seems to have been buried alive. But DS Wesley Peterson has little time to indulge in his hobby of archaeology. He has a more recent murder case to solve. A man has been found stabbed to death in a caravan at a popular holiday park & the only clue to his identity is a newspaper cutting about the restoration of Earlsacre. Does local solicitor Brian Willerby have the answer? He seems eager to talk to Wesley but before he can reveal his secret he is found dead during a 'friendly' game of village cricket apparently struck by a cricket ball several times with some force. If Wesley is looking for a demon bowler this appears to let out most of the village side. But what is it about Earlsacre Hall that leads people to murder? ...

Kit Livingstone has been bequeathed by his great grandfather Cosimo an apparently impossible task: to piece together a 17th-century map whose fragments are scattered not just throughout this universe but other universes too. Aided by his girlfriend Mina herself in Hapsburg-Empire Prague Kit begins to make progress but realises that opponents in the shape of the Burley Men are equally determined to capture the map & they have a crucial advantage: the ability to manipulate the will of historical figures for their own ends. ...

Cambridge 1392. Matthew Bartholomew physician to Michaelhouse College is called to examine some mysterious bones found in the Kings Ditch. Next day he is called to the Ditch again: a student has been found dead there. Meanwhile there is unrest in the town & the strange disappearance of Dominica former lover of the dead student & daughter of Waterstone the well-known Principal of a Cambridge student hostel. Are these events connected? Then a skeletal hand is found in the Ditch hailed by townsfolk as the final remains of local martyr Simon d Ambrey & hence a holy relic. When Bartholomew finds that the hand is wearing a ring apparently identical to a pair that were worn by Dominica & her ex-lover & now missing he knows that his investigative skills are called for. ...

Death is no stranger in the city of Erisin but some deaths attract more attention than others. When a prostitute dies carrying a royal signet Isyllt Iskaldur necromancer & agent of the Crown is called to investigate. Her search leads to desecrated tombs below the palace & the lightless vaults of the vampiric vrykoloi. But worse things than vampires are plotting in Erisin
- a long-dead sorceress is making a bid not only for renewed life but for the throne as well & Isyllt's former lover is caught in her schemes. As a sorcerous plague sweeps the city Isyllt must decide who she's prepared to betray
- the man she still loves or the royal family she's sworn to defend.

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