Predator

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'Sensationally plotted, with a twist at the end that will leave you gasping for breath' oailyexpress Florida is full of predators, from the animals who thrive in its humid heat to the humans who stalk the air-conditioned malis, and they all give Dr Kay Scarpetta, now Director of Forensic Science and Medicine at the National Forensic Ac^demy, the opportunity and the means to do what she does best - persuading the dead tospeaktoher. In the icy chili of Boston, Benton Wesley is working on a secret / project involving convicted killers, one of whom appears to confess to an even higher number of murders than the authorities had known about. It is a project that gives Scarpetta deep disquiet, as does the behaviour of her niece Lucy, who is spending too much time drinking and indulging in casual pick-ups in cheap bars. Then the Academy is called in to assist in the discovery of a young womarís body in Massachusetts. She has been tortured and sexually abused, her body tattoöed with... Tovább

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'Sensationally plotted, with a twist at the end that will leave you gasping for breath' oailyexpress Florida is full of predators, from the animals who thrive in its humid heat to the humans who stalk the air-conditioned malis, and they all give Dr Kay Scarpetta, now Director of Forensic Science and Medicine at the National Forensic Ac^demy, the opportunity and the means to do what she does best - persuading the dead tospeaktoher. In the icy chili of Boston, Benton Wesley is working on a secret / project involving convicted killers, one of whom appears to confess to an even higher number of murders than the authorities had known about. It is a project that gives Scarpetta deep disquiet, as does the behaviour of her niece Lucy, who is spending too much time drinking and indulging in casual pick-ups in cheap bars. Then the Academy is called in to assist in the discovery of a young womarís body in Massachusetts. She has been tortured and sexually abused, her body tattoöed with handprints. The same sort of handprints Lucy has seen on the flesh of

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