Predator

London: Warner Books. Good+. 2006. Reprint; Second Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Some reading and cover corner creases, some shelf and edge wear with tiny splits to base of spine, paper edge toned with some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Second printing of Time Warner mass market edition, 2006. Good reading copy, no names inside. Cover design and photography by blacksheep. ; The Scarpetta Series; Vol. 14; 480 pages; Florida is full of predators, froom the animals that thrive in the humid heat to the humans who stalk the air-conditioned shopping malls, and they all give Dr Kay Scarpetta, now Director of Forensic Science and Medicine at the National Forensic Academy, the opportunity and the means to do what she does best - persuading the dead to speak to her. And in icy chill of Boston, Benton Wesley is working on a secret case involving convicted killers, one of whom is confessing to more murders than the authorities knew about. It is a project which gives Scarpetta deep disquiet, as does the behaviour of her niece, Lucy, who is spending too much time in cheap bars looking for casual pick-ups. Then the Academy is called in to assist when a woman's body is found in Massachusetts. She has been tortured, sexually abused, her body tattooed with handprints. The same sort of handprints Lucy has seen on the flesh of her latest pick-up... .