"A terrifying convoluted tale of murder"

Once again Dr. Kay Scarpetta is on the case. We have a cast that peaks the readers interest and keeps them guessing. Scarpetta is freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida when she is face with one of the more bizarre cases she has ever faced. Her team of Pete Marino, Benton Wesley and her niece Lucy are all involved in this one. An she will need all of them to solve this case. Four people have disappeared from their home. An elderly woman who complained of harassment by a citrus canker inspector has been viciously murdered in her bed. A psychopath safely behind bars and the subject of a classified scientific study teases Scarpetta with tips on the murders. Facts that don't seem to fit together at all and cases that seem unrelated are coming together and making a scary picture of murder.

Reviewed by Judith Saul
Posted November 8, 2005

Summary

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowboundBoston, one as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team-Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli-to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows, until now. Predator is proof once again that Patricia Cornwell has few peers with her extraordinary ability to entertain and enthrall.