Patricia Cornwell’s Predator show cases the brilliance of this talented author, as she once again highlights forensics expert Kay Scarpetta while taking you on a fast-paced journey that runs from Boston to Southern Florida.

In this volume of the Kay Scarpetta series Ms Cornwell has Scarpetta join forces with her niece, Lucy, at the National Forensics Academy in Florida where with the invaluable assistance of Pete Marino and Benton Wesley they track down a diabolical monster who is picking his victims at random and subjecting them to such horrors that they lose all their desire to survive. Throughout the investigation you are introduced to several lesser subplots that help to keep the novel moving forward, such as Lucy’s illness and the manipulations of Joe Amos who strives to make everyone at the Academy question each other’s motives.

This novel, a fine psychological thriller, will take you on a not soon to be forgotten race track ride of high intensity drama that zips you along from the first chapter to the totally unexpected ending. If you are a Patricia Cornwell fan and have enjoyed the past Kay Scarpetta series you will not be disappointed in Predator as I found it one of her best since the crime’s protagonist is totally unexpected.

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