FA: THE LAST PRECINCT by Patricia Cornwall - a Kay Scarpet..

This audio book is one of many read by Kate Reading.

Total playing time is 17.5 hours

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A Violent Present and a Haunting Past

Patricia Cornwell's thrilling latest, The Last Precinct, begins just
after last year's megaselling Black Notice concludes. In Black Notice,
Cornwell's famous chief medical examiner, Kay Scarpetta, narrowly
escapes from a savage French serial killer named Jean-Baptiste
Chandonne. What Scarpetta doesn't realize is that, although the
freakish, werewolflike Chandonne is now in police custody, she is
still under his control.

In The Last Precinct, the tables are turned when Kay is suspected in
the nauseatingly gruesome murder of Deputy Police Chief Diane Bray.
Before she can begin to save what she holds dearest (her reputation),
she must battle some demons of her own; only then can she be objective
enough to find the clues needed to clear her own name and make sure
the monster who tried to kill her can never kill again.

As the clues begin to pile up, Kay discovers that Bray's murder, among
others, goes far deeper than anyone realized. The scope of the
Chandonne crime family's power also becomes evident. As always,
Scarpetta depends on cop Pete Marino and her niece, Lucy, but
Scarpetta also finds herself forced to trust Jaime Berger, a
prosecutor from New York, when she learns her biggest lesson: No one
can be trusted when dealing with a family that uses money and murder
to get anything -- and anyone -- they want.

While Kay is moving forward with her investigation, she begins to
receive crank phone calls from someone claiming to be Benton Wesley,
Scarpetta's one true love, who died over a year ago. Kay is now forced
to painfully return Benton to the forefront of her consciousness;
somehow his murder ties into Kay's current situation and the clues she
is now discovering. But the surprising connections don't end there:
Pete Marino's own son, whom he disowned years ago, is also suddenly
part of the picture.

There is one thing Cornwell makes clear in this brisk, cleverly
constructed thriller, which even lays claim to an archaeological dig
in the historic Jamestown colony: The past does not always remain in
the past. Considering the way the serial killer is apprehended at the
very beginnings of The Last Precinct, it's amazing that Cornwell is
able to keep the suspense so high as her seemingly simple story slowly
unfolds into deep complexity. The Last Precinct always remains two
steps ahead until the fingernail-biting finale; there's no question
that Cornwell has earned herself another bestseller.

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