City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Chaos, Patricia Cornwell

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novels

Chaos

Patricia Cornwell

A Scarpetta novel, [24]

In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning -- except the weather is perfectly clear with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta's investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a flurry of bizarre poems from an anonymous cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie. Though subsequent lab results support Scarpetta's conclusions, the threatening messages don't stop. When the tenth poem arrives exactly twenty-four hours after Elisa's death, Scarpetta begins to suspect the harasser is involved and sounds the alarm. To make matters worse, a venomous media is whipping the public into a frenzy, questioning the seasoned forensics chief's judgement

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