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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

ISBN-101611761972

ISBN-139781611761979

eBay Product ID (ePID)159851042

Product Key Features

TopicThrillers / Suspense, Crime, Thrillers / Medical, Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective / General

Publication Year2013

Book TitleDust : Scarpetta (Book 21)

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorPatricia Cornwell

Book SeriesScarpetta Ser.

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 In.

Item Length5.8 In.

Item Width5.1 In.

Item Weight9.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell." -- The New York Times Book Review

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Series Volume Number21

Number of Volumes12 vols.

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition

SynopsisFrom the world's number-one bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel. Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she's awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino. A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT and it's suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineer Gail Shipton, last seen the night before at a trendy Cambridge bar. It appears she's been murdered, mere weeks before the trial of her $100 million lawsuit against her former financial managers, and Scarpetta doubts it's a coincidence. She also fears the case may have a connection with her computer genius niece, Lucy. At a glance there is no sign of what killed Gail Shipton, but she's covered with a fine dust that under ultraviolet light fluoresces brilliantly in three vivid colors, what Scarpetta calls a mineral fingerprint. Clearly the body has been posed with chilling premeditation that is symbolic and meant to shock, and Scarpetta has reason to worry that the person responsible is the Capital Murderer, whose most recent sexual homicides have terrorized Washington, D.C. Stunningly, Scarpetta will discover that her FBI profiler husband, Benton Wesley, is convinced that certain people in the government, including his boss, don't want the killer caught. In Dust , Scarpetta and her colleagues are up against a force far more sinister than a sexual predator who fits the criminal classification of a "spectacle killer." The murder of Gail Shipton soon leads deep into the dark world of designer drugs, drone technology, organized crime, and shocking corruption at the highest levels. With unparalleled high-tension suspense and the latest in forensic technology, Patricia Cornwell once again proves her exceptional ability to surprise--and to thrill.

Number of Pages1 pages