
The victims appear to have had nothing in common, and there is no pattern to indicate where the killer will strike next. The shots seem impossible, yet they are so perfect they cause instant death. 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. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car. 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.


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.
