Audio only
Length13h 2m
About this audiobook
#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. Kay Scarpetta.
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. It appears she was struck by lightning—except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center’s director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental Act of God.
Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a flurry of bizarre poems from an anonymous cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie. Though subsequent lab results support Scarpetta’s conclusions, the threatening messages don’t stop. 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.
She also enlists the help of her niece, Lucy. But to Scarpetta’s surprise, tracking the slippery Tailend Charlie is nearly impossible, even for someone as brilliant as her niece. Also, Lucy can’t explain how this anonymous nemesis could have access to private information. 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.""
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.7 (38.9K)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon, StoryGraph, LibraryThing
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length13 hrs 2 mins
Narrated bySusan Ericksen
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 15, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Series
More from Patricia Cornwell
Hornet's NestPatricia Cornwell13h 40m3.6 (19.2K)$33 · $0.00
Black NoticePatricia Cornwell12h 21m3.9 (48.4K)$29 · $0.00
Southern CrossPatricia Cornwell11h 46m3.7 (12.3K)$29 · $0.00
Flesh and BloodPatricia Cornwell12h 9m3.6 (27.1K)$29 · $0.00
Blow FlyPatricia Cornwell12h 44m3.9 (56K)$29 · $0.00
AutopsyPatricia Cornwell11h 54m3.9 (46.5K)$29 · $0.00
Point of OriginPatricia Cornwell11h 57m4.1 (77.6K)$29 · $0.00
AutopsyPatricia Cornwell11h 54m3.9 (40.7K)$29 · $0.00
Isle of DogsPatricia Cornwell15h 50m3.3 (13K)$33 · $0.00
Depraved HeartPatricia Cornwell14h 53m3.7 (46.3K)$33 · $0.00
ChaosPatricia Cornwell13h 2m3.5 (26.7K)$33 · $0.00
Flesh and BloodPatricia Cornwell12h 9m3.9 (26.2K)$29 · $0.00
Flesh And BloodPatricia Cornwell12h 9m3.9 (26.2K)$29 · $0.00
ChaosPatricia Cornwell13h 2m3.9 (36.2K)$33 · $0.00
Depraved HeartPatricia Cornwell14h 53m3.8 (44.9K)$33 · $0.00
The Rose CodeKate Quinn16h 2m4.4 (493.7K)$33 · $0.00
Farewell My Lovely (Annotated)Raymond Chandler10h 37m4.6 (1.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Labyrinth of the SpiritsCarlos Ruiz Zafon27h 55m4.5 (77.2K)$53 · $0.00
Olympic Mountain PursuitJodie Bailey5h 55m4.6 (638)$12 · $0.00
Glen AffricKarine Giebel22h 51m4.5 (3.2K)$46 · $0.00
Deadly Badlands PursuitSharee Stover5h 53m4.6 (361)$12 · $0.00
Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation) (Annotated)Fyodor Dostoevsky24h 25m4.5 (15.4K)$1.99 · $0.00
Three ComradesErich Maria Remarque15h 50m4.5 (47.3K)$2 · $0.00
AngelAnita Waller10h 30m4.6 (672)$30 · $0.00
The BorderDon Winslow29h 8m4.5 (35.7K)$53 · $0.00
FlashpointCatherine Coulter11h 38m4.5 (11.6K)$29 · $0.00
The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to BaghdadAgatha Christie15h 43m4.6 (495)$33 · $0.00
Fang Si-Chi's First Love ParadiseYi-Han Lin8h 25m4.5 (4K)$26 · $0.00
No Woman Left BehindJulie Moffett8h 49m4.5 (3K)$25 · $0.00
CovertJanie Crouch6h 15m4.5 (2K)$12 · $0.00
Cold Case InvestigationNicole Helm5h 30m4.6 (321)$5 · $0.00
The ReunionJana DeLeon6h 31m4.5 (1.6K)$12 · $0.00
Courage Under FireSharon Dunn5h 50m4.5 (730)$24 · $0.00
Decoding the TruthJulie Miller7h 31m4.6 (350)$12 · $0.00
Murder Gone ColdB.J. Daniels5h 50m4.5 (562)$12 · $0.00