![]() Kay summarize: “If Carrie knew Chanel and Chanel knew Lucy then that links the three of them. That road, with detours to the Bermuda Triangle (“you draw a line from Miami to San Juan, Puerto Rico to Bermuda”), is a bumpy one, and it passes right by the door of a mysterious, permanently peeved psycho. Kay’s latest examinee is bound up somehow with her niece, the subject of said video, a techie with a thick wallet and mad skills of a sort that Lisbeth Salander might envy. In the latest imposition on her good nature, a video lands on her phone while she’s combing through an icky scene, a young woman whose “once slender body in the early stages of putrefaction, bloated with areas of her skin slipping.” That’s grody to the max, to be sure, but, there being no accidents and no coincidences in this strange world of ours, it stands to reason that somehow Dr. ![]() Kay, forensic pathologist extraordinaire, doesn’t lead a dull life, even though much of her time is spent holding one-sided conversations with dead people. In fact we’re drawn to it, fascinated, intrigued, and it’s a good thing.” Say what you will about her, Dr. “A select few of us,” she says, “come into this world not bothered by gruesomeness. ![]() ![]() Kay Scarpetta, fussy and exacting, doesn’t mind gore. Another gritty, world-weary tale of mayhem by masterful mysterian Cornwell ( Flesh and Blood, 2014, etc.).ĭr. ![]()
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