#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr.
To make matters worse, a venomous media is whipping the public into a frenzy, questioning the seasoned forensics chief\'s judgment and ``a quack cause of death on a par with spontaneous combustion.``.
Also, Lucy can\'t explain how this anonymous nemesis could have access to private information.
But to Scarpetta\'s surprise, tracking the slippery Tailend Charlie is nearly impossible, even for someone as brilliant as her niece.
She also enlists the help of her niece, Lucy.
When the tenth poem arrives exactly twenty-four hours after Elisa\'s death, Scarpetta begins to suspect the harasser is involved, and sounds the alarm to her investigative partner Pete Marino and her husband, FBI analyst Benton Wesley.
Though subsequent lab results support Scarpetta\'s conclusions, the threatening messages don\'t stop.
Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a flurry of bizarre poems from an anonymous cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie.
Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center\'s director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God.
Dr.
It appears she was struck by lightning--except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight.
In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River.
Kay Scarpetta. #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr
