Book Review: Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell (Kay Scarpetta 16)

Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York to examine an injured man in a psychiatric prison ward. The man has asked for her and he tells her a strange tale where he explains away his injuries as incurred during a murder that he did not commit. A woman is found tortured and murdered and this is the first of further violent deaths. It is clear that someone who is committing these crimes knows what the victims are doing at all times. Who is it?

We learn more about the Scarpetta/Benson relationship as the novel unfolds as well as about her niece Lucy and her lesbian relationship too. The cases being worked on immerse us into the cutting edge of crime solving and it is quite an enjoyable ride.

The Scarpetta novels are starting to regain their earlier good reads?

I would give his novel 7/10.