Paula W. (Paula) reviewed on 7/24/2005 + 19 more book reviews

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Another Great Scarpetta story. From the inside cover....We enter The Last Precinct through the reverberating aftershocks of black Notice, inconceivable finding virginia's chief Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta an object of suspicion and criminal investigation. And the nightmare perpetuated on scarpetta's doorstep continues as she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past. When a formidable prosecutor, a female assistant district attorney from New York, is brought into the case, Carpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting and unnerving evidence to the contrary. Tested in every way, she turns inward to ask, Where do you go when there is nowhere left? The answer is the Last Princint. By the end of the novel, it is clear that Scarpetta's life can never be the same.
Woven through with extraordinary forensic detail, the larger-than-life presence of Scarpetta's neice Lucy and her colleague Captain Pete Morino,and a palpable sense of fear that keeps readers looking back-into the past for clues, and over their shoulders for the next enigmatic act of violence-the Last Precinct marks a new era for Kay Scarpetta and a triumphant achievement for Patricia Cornwell.

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