Flesh and Blood

On her birthday, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the master forensic sleuth, is about to leave for a vacation with her husband, FBI profiler Benton Wesley, when she notices seven shiny pennies, all dated 1981, placed on a wall behind their Cambridge home. This strange discovery is quickly followed by a call from Detective Pete Marino reporting a murder just minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision while unloading groceries, a victim of a serial sniper who seems to leave no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper. As the list of victims grows, an unsettling pattern emerges: the targets all have tenuous links to Scarpetta or those closest to her, suggesting the sniper, dubbed 'The Copperhead,' is striking far too close to home. Scarpetta's harrowing pursuit of this phantom killer takes her from Massachusetts to New Jersey and into the murky depths off the coast of South Florida, where she dives a shipwreck looking for clues that only she can analyze, forcing her to confront an unthinkable truth.

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