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Flesh and Blood
Patricia Cornwell
It’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and while she’s enjoying a leisurely morning, a man is shot dead five minutes from her house. The bullet tore through him as he unloaded groceries from his car. Yet nobody heard or saw a thing.It looks like the work of a serial sniper – one who leaves no trace except for tiny copper fragments, and whose seemingly impossible shots cause instant death. As Scarpetta investigates, uncovering details that only she can analyze, she begins to suspect that the killer is sending her a message.Adding to Scarpetta’s growing unease is the sense that those closest to her are keeping secrets. And when her pursuit of the sniper takes Scarpetta to a shipwreck off the Florida coast, she comes face to face with shocking evidence that implicates her niece Lucy – Scarpetta’s very own flesh and blood…
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DEDICATION (#ulink_9eb8f7c1-8d94-52a4-bb04-bc59a955c7fe)
To Staci
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
– FRANÇOIS RABELAIS, 1532
CONTENTS
Cover (#u60db9b50-e672-53a7-abc9-da0edf55e44c)
Title Page (#ua633a493-ac95-598a-ae5f-21c5a40b044a)
Copyright (#u65786123-0ac4-54be-b145-f7f3285ea00d)
Dedication (#u7f2457df-b296-5789-8aaf-bfc45e0db2ea)
Epigraph (#ufa9e7cf1-92d8-59c1-a18f-3a62fadd8542)
Chapter 1 (#ucf348cc5-87ea-56d1-8042-b07e8a296a55)
Chapter 2 (#ud8f61728-3d69-5941-bf3c-f3dd5bdcce68)
Chapter 3 (#u13a4d677-1efc-5995-9ebb-5e36433c3e0d)
Chapter 4 (#u0cf5d946-3850-505a-812f-d5abc6f51c1d)
Chapter 5 (#u5b58a4bb-21f6-576e-9055-82ddf5594a9e)
Chapter 6 (#u024b8ca2-9259-523f-96c6-f06e324512ae)
Chapter 7 (#ufd760e93-0065-5fb5-b447-81e4adca3718)
Chapter 8 (#uac137bae-b126-571e-87b4-350e704fa984)
Chapter 9 (#u06fc8e23-aabd-5a79-94cc-0a60aa58bffd)
Chapter 10 (#uf6ba5e93-ae8f-5b4d-8649-23b46fae4aa9)
Chapter 11 (#u74ecaecc-8b47-59d2-a130-6e3988974e12)
Chapter 12 (#u25d8b0e3-e6b8-5a53-9f0b-9318c8ecd589)
Chapter 13 (#ufe024dab-c852-5308-b982-f24f4a290cc0)
Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 25 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 26 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 27 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 28 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 29 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 30 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 31 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 32 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 33 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 34 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 35 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 36 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 37 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 38 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 39 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 40 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 41 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 42 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 43 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 44 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 45 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 46 (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter 47 (#litres_trial_promo)
Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)
Read on for an exclusive extract from the new Kay Scarpetta novel … (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
Also by Patricia Cornwell (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
To Kay Scarpetta
From Copperhead
Sunday, May 11
(11:43 p.m. to be exact)
A little verse I penned just for you. Happy Mother’s Day, Kay!!!!
(do turn the page please …)
The light is coming
And the dark
you caused
(& think you saw)
Is gone gone gone!
Frag-
ments of shat-
tered gold
and the Hangman leaves invisibly
Lust seeks its own level Dr. Death
an eye for an eye
a theft for a theft
an erotic dream of your dying breath
