02447cam a2200337 4500 246396279 TxAuBib 20151113120000.0 150605s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062325402 006232540X (OCoLC)910826890 TxAuBib Cornwell, Patricia, author. Depraved heart / Patricia Cornwell. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015] ©2015. 466 pages ; 24 cm. Kay Scarpetta ; 23 Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. As Scarpetta watches, she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip and then others sent soon after raise dangerous legal implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her confused, worried, and not knowing where to turn. She doesn't know whom she can tell -- not her FBI husband Benton Wesley or her investigative partner Pete Marino. Not even Lucy. The clips launch these characters on an intensely psychological odyssey that includes the mysterious death of a Hollywood mogul's daughter, aircraft wreckage on the bottom of the sea in the Bermuda Triangle, a grisly gift left in the back of a crime scene truck, and videos from the past that threaten to destroy Scarpetta's entire world and everyone she loves. The diabolical presence behind what unfolds seems obvious -- but strangely, not to the FBI. Certainly that's the message they send when they raid Lucy's estate and begin building a case that could send her to prison for the rest of her life. 20151113. Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character) Fiction. Forensic pathologists Fiction. Women pathologists Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Criminal investigation Fiction. Mystery fiction. Suspense fiction. Kay Scarpetta ; 23.