On a hot late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner, Pete Marino, respond to a call about a dead bicyclist. It appears that a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force.
Even before Scarpetta’ s headquarters has been officially notified about the case, Marino and Scarpetta’ s FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, receive suspicious calls, allegedly from someone at Interpol. With breathtaking speed it becomes apparent that an onslaught of interference and harassment might be the work of an anonymous cyberbully named Tailend Charlie, who has been sending cryptic communications to Scarpetta for over a week.
Stunningly, even her brilliant tech savvy niece, Lucy, can’ t trace who it is or how this person could have access to intimate information few outside their family would have. When a second death hundreds of miles south shocks Scarpetta to her core, she and those close to her are confronted with something far bigger and more dangerous than they’ d ever imagined.
