The Bone Bed: Scarpetta (Book 20) - Patricia Cornwell

An eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site in the Canadian wilderness, and Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect the woman's death may be connected to crimes in Boston. Available in a tall Premium Edition. \nA woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. \nBut as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect that the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures, and trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age. \n \nWhen she turns to those around her, Scarpetta finds that the danger and suspicion have penetrated even her closest circles. Her niece Lucy speaks in riddles. Her lead investigator, Pete Marino, and FBI forensic psychologist and husband, Benton Wesley, have secrets of their own. Feeling alone and betrayed, Scarpetta is tempted by someone from her past as she tracks a killer both cunning and cruel.\n