Part of Kay Scarpetta, book 23
First published 2015
Dr. Kay Scarpetta investigates a suspicious death at a Cambridge historic home when her phone buzzes with an emergency alert. A video message appears to show her beloved niece Lucy, but the surveillance footage was recorded twenty years earlier. More clips arrive, each one revealing disturbing secrets about Lucy that force Scarpetta to question everything she thought she knew. She cannot confide in her FBI husband Benton Wesley or her partner Pete Marino. She cannot even approach Lucy herself. The videos connect to a web of bizarre cases: a Hollywood mogul's daughter found dead, underwater wreckage in the Bermuda Triangle, and a grotesque discovery in a crime scene vehicle. Someone with a depraved heart orchestrates these events, yet the FBI refuses to see the obvious culprit. Instead, they target Lucy, building a case that could destroy her life. Scarpetta must navigate this psychological maze while the evidence mounts against the person she loves most.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: psychological-suspense, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Cambridge, Bermuda Triangle
Period: 20 years ago
466 pages · Hardcover · William Morrow