Depraved Heart

About this book

#1 New York Times bestselling author PatriciaCornwell's 23rd Scarpetta novel is a "heart-stopping, paranoia-fueled, propulsively readable, viscerally suspenseful, disconcertinglyshifty"* thriller in which Kay must save her niece from a diabolical set-up.*Providence JournalDr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene inCambridge, Massachusetts, when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A videolink lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece, Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almosttwenty years ago.As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secretsabout her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clipand then others sent soon after raise dangerous legal implications thatincreasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her not knowing where to turn. She can'ttell her FBI husband, Benton Wesley, or her investigative partner, Pete Marino.Not even Lucy. Soon Scarpetta is launched on an intensely psychologicalodyssey that includes the mysterious death of a Hollywood mogul's daughter, aircraft wreckage on the bottom of the sea in the Bermuda Triangle, a grislygift left in the back of a crime scene truck, and more videos from the pastthat threaten to destroy her entire world and everyone she loves. And when theFBI raid Lucy's estate and begin building a case that could send her to prisonfor the rest of her life, there's only one person who can save her...