Depraved Heart
- Author: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrator: Susan Ericksen
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 14:53:44
Synopsis
Patricia Cornwell delivers the newest engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.
Depraved Heart: “Void of social duty and fatally bent on mischief.”
—Mayes v. People, 806 III. 306 (1883)
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 confused, worried, and not knowing where to turn. She doesn’t know whom she can tell—not her FBI husband Benton Wesley or her investigative partner Pete Marino. Not even Lucy.
In this new novel, Cornwell launches these unforgettable characters 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 videos from the past that threaten to destroy Scarpetta’s entire world and everyone she loves. The diabolical presence behind what unfolds seems obvious—but strangely, not to the FBI. Certainly that’s the message they send when they raid Lucy’s estate and begin building a case that could send her to prison for the rest of her life.
In the latest novel in her bestselling series featuring chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Cornwell will captivate readers with the shocking twists, high-wire tension, and cutting-edge forensic detail that she is famous for, proving yet again why she’s the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer.
Chapters
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001 Depraved Heart
Duration: 13s -
002 Chapter 01
Duration: 21min -
003 Chapter 02
Duration: 15min -
004 Chapter 03
Duration: 16min -
005 Chapter 04
Duration: 21min -
006 Chapter 05
Duration: 14min -
007 Chapter 06
Duration: 11min -
008 Chapter 07
Duration: 15min -
009 Chapter 08
Duration: 21min -
010 Chapter 09
Duration: 19min -
011 Chapter 10
Duration: 20min -
012 Chapter 11
Duration: 19min -
013 Chapter 12
Duration: 24min -
014 Chapter 13
Duration: 23min -
015 Chapter 14
Duration: 21min -
016 Chapter 15
Duration: 18min -
017 Chapter 16
Duration: 16min -
018 Chapter 17
Duration: 14min -
019 Chapter 18
Duration: 20min -
020 Chapter 19
Duration: 14min