Scarpetta, now feeling some with the national forensic Academy of florida, digs into a case more bizarre than any she has ever face, one that has produced not only unusual physical evidence, but also tantalize includes about the inner workings of an extremely common and Criminal mind. She and her team, Pete Marino, Benton wesley, and her niece Lucy track down the odd connections between several horrific crimes in the people who are likely suspects. In florida, scarpettias investigate in the puzzle and disappearance of four people who have been abducted from their quiet home, leaving their car parked have absolutely in the driveway in a stove burner only. The marino finds something in a nearby house that stops in cold, a woman who has complained of harassment from a citrus kinker inspector who has been viciously murdered in her bed. That's one psychopath, safely Behind Bars and the subject of classified scientific study at a Harvard Affiliated psychiatric hospital, teases Scarpetta with tips that could be fact or fantasy the number of killers on the lease seems to multiply. Are these events related or merely random? And what can the study of one man's brain tell them about the methods of a psychopath still lurking in the shadows?

ISBN: 9780399152832