{"product_id":"depraved-heart-a-scarpetta-novel-isbn-9780063114944","title":"Depraved Heart: A Scarpetta Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e#1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Patricia\u003cbr\u003eCornwell’s \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e23\u003csup\u003erd\u003c\/sup\u003e Scarpetta novel is a \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“heart-stopping,\u003cbr\u003eparanoia-fueled, propulsively readable, viscerally suspenseful, disconcertingly\u003cbr\u003eshifty”* thriller in which Kay must save her niece from a diabolical set-up.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Providence Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in\u003cbr\u003eCambridge, Massachusetts, when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video\u003cbr\u003elink lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece,\u003cbr\u003eLucy. But how can it be? It’s clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost\u003cbr\u003etwenty years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets\u003cbr\u003eabout her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip\u003cbr\u003eand then others sent soon after raise dangerous legal implications that\u003cbr\u003eincreasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her not knowing where to turn. She can’t\u003cbr\u003etell her FBI husband, Benton Wesley, or her investigative partner, Pete Marino.\u003cbr\u003eNot even Lucy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon Scarpetta is launched on an intensely psychological\u003cbr\u003eodyssey that includes the mysterious death of a Hollywood mogul’s daughter,\u003cbr\u003eaircraft wreckage on the bottom of the sea in the Bermuda Triangle, a grisly\u003cbr\u003egift left in the back of a crime scene truck, and more videos from the past\u003cbr\u003ethat threaten to destroy her entire world and everyone she loves. And when the\u003cbr\u003eFBI raid Lucy’s estate and begin building a case that could send her to prison\u003cbr\u003efor the rest of her life, there’s only one person who can save her...\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eDr. Kay Scarpetta is working a highly suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link seems to be from her niece Lucy. But how can it be? It’s clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Scarpetta watches she comes to grips with frightening secrets about her niece. 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. The diabolical presence and singularly “depraved heart” behind what unfolds seems obvious—but strangely, not to the FBI. Certainly that’s 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 world’s number one bestselling crime writer.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Another gritty, world-weary tale of mayhem by masterful mysterian Cornwell. . . . Terse and tangled, messy and body-fluidy, and altogether satisfying.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Another gritty, world-weary tale of mayhem by masterful mysterian Cornwell. . . . Terse and tangled, messy and body-fluidy, and altogether satisfying.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dark and cleverly plotted.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cornwell’s demonic plot shifts and changes almost page by page, so the reader’s spun round not knowing what to believe… This intense rush of a mystery will keep you guessing up until the very scary conclusion.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvidence Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Heart-stopping, paranoia-fueled, propulsively readable, viscerally suspenseful, disconcertingly shifty… Cornwell’s demonic plot shifts and changes almost page by page, so the reader’s spun round not knowing what to believe… This intense rush of a mystery will keep you guessing up until the very scary conclusion.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvidence Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who keeps us coming back to Patricia Cornwell’s sprawling crime novels, is one tough broad. … Once Scarpetta decides to ferret out Lucy’s secrets, the novel becomes more of a psychological thriller.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who keeps us coming back to Patricia Cornwell’s sprawling crime novels, is one tough broad. . . . 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