A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville Tennessee where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss the district attorney attractive but hard-charging is planning to run for governor and as a showcase shes planning to use a new crime initiative called At Risk-its motto: Any crime any time. In particular shes been looking for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology and she thinks shes found the perfect subject in an unsolved twenty-year-old murder-in Tennessee. If her office solves the case it ought to make them all look pretty good right?
Her investigator is not so sure-not sure about anything to do with this woman really-but before he can open his mouth a shocking piece of violence intervenes an act that shakes up not only both their lives but the lives of everyone around them. Its not a random event. Is it personal? Is it professional? Whatever it is the implications are very very bad indeed . . . and theyre about to get much worse.
Sparks fly traps spring twists abound-this is the master working at the top of her game.
A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville Tennessee where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss the district attorney attractive but hard-charging is planning to run for governor and as a showcase shes planning to use a new crime initiative called At Risk-its motto: Any crime any time. In particular shes been looking for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology and she thinks shes found the perfect subject in an unsolved twenty-year-old murder-in Tennessee. If her office solves the case it ought to make them all look pretty good right?
Her investigator is not so sure-not sure about anything to do with this woman really-but before he can open his mouth a shocking piece of violence intervenes an act that shakes up not only both their lives but the lives of everyone around them. Its not a random event. Is it personal? Is it professional? Whatever it is the implications are very very bad indeed . . . and theyre about to get much worse.
Sparks fly traps spring twists abound-this is the master working at the top of her game.
Patricia Cornwell
