A serial killer taunts Dr Kay Scarpetta by lining up a set of seven shiny 1981 copper pennies on the garden wall of her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is preparing for a Florida vacation with her FBI profiler husband Benton, but a sniper murder nearby calls her to action. Soon it becomes clear this case is personal, and her tech-savvy niece Lucy may be involved. In her twenty-second Scarpetta novel, Cornwell’s forensic knowhow is still at the cutting edge – even though Scarpetta was the prototype for most of TV’s crack forensic investigators today – and her final scenes are both logical and shocking.(BBC)Bakudaily.Az