Depraved Heart: A Scarpetta Novel

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia

Cornwell’s

*Providence Journal

Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in

Cambridge, Massachusetts, when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video

link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece,

Lucy. But how can it be? It’s clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost

twenty years ago.

As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets

about her niece, whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip

and then others sent soon after raise dangerous legal implications that

increasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her not knowing where to turn. She can’t

tell her FBI husband, Benton Wesley, or her investigative partner, Pete Marino.

Not even Lucy.

Soon Scarpetta is launched on an intensely psychological

odyssey that includes the mysterious death of a Hollywood mogul’s daughter,

aircraft wreckage on the bottom of the sea in the Bermuda Triangle, a grisly

gift left in the back of a crime scene truck, and more videos from the past

that threaten to destroy her entire world and everyone she loves. And when the

FBI raid Lucy’s estate and begin building a case that could send her to prison

for the rest of her life, there’s only one person who can save her...