Flesh and Blood

A Scarpetta Novel, Book 22

It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids’ game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there’s been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. No one has heard or seen a thing.

In this 22nd Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper. The shots seem impossible, yet they are so perfect they cause instant death. The victims appear to have had nothing in common, and there is no pattern to indicate where the killer will strike next. First New Jersey, then Massachusetts, and then the murky depths off the coast of South Florida, where Scarpetta investigates a shipwreck, looking for answers that only she can discover and analyze. And it is there that she comes face to face with shocking evidence that implicates her techno genius niece, Lucy, Scarpetta’s own flesh and blood.

What happened? This book is seriously flat.

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Yes, but ONLY because I am a huge Scarpetta fan. This book left me feeling flat. And unfulfilled. There was no new development in any of the characters, and though all of the standard Scarpetta characters are in the book none seem to take much of a role in what is essentially a "weak sauce" storyline.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Well, I've got time to wait to see if P.C. gets the next Scarpetta novel up to snuff... in the interim I've got a few books in queue.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

YES...

Did Flesh and Blood inspire you to do anything?

Finish it quickly, just to finish it.

Great!

Loved every minute of the story and audiobooks are my relaxation so I hate to be disappointed. I was not!

I'm so confused!

The last sentence of the book seems to indicate that something is about to happen, that we're in the middle of something, and that's it? I have to go to the store to see a print version to make sure that's really the end.
The performance is super.

Engrossing and well done

Like this story better than some of her recent books. She brought back some of her previous characters in larger roles. Liked the part where she went to the ocean. More story and less wandering

Great story & characters but poor performance

I loved all of the Scarpetta series books that I had read in the past and was looking forward to listening to this one. Unfortunately, this performance was so poor and so in unnatural, that it was hard to focus on the story.