Book Review: All That Remains by Patricia Cornwell (Kay Scarpetta 3)

I am quite used to the characters of Kay Scarpetta and her "team" of Pete Marino and Benton Wesley as well as her young niece Lucy. I am also fascinated by the American-Italian background as well.

Marino's wife Doris has left him and we get the human face of the detective and Scarpetta's reaction to this too.

However, this novel is also a mystery that is what holds our interest. A killer is on the loose and is taking out young lovers. Kay Scarpetta as the Chief Medical Examiner helps in the investigations but her task is made more difficult as the bodies are in remote woodlands. She is unable to definitively unable to clearly define the causes of death.

When the latest girl goes missing it turns out that she is one of the daughters of one of the most powerful women in the USA and Scarpetta is then subjected to media attention and the pressure on her mounts.

There appears to be a conspiracy too and evidence is being withheld, manipulated or faked. The killer is still on the loose.

8/10 for me for this one.