01661cam a2200277 i 4500 1648919053 TxAuBib 20241008120000.0 240725s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781538770382 30.00 1538770385 30.00 TxAuBib rda Cornwell, Patricia Daniels, author. Identity unknown / Patricia Cornwell. First edition. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2024. ©2024. pages cm + 2024/10/08. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A Scarpetta Novel". "Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had an intense love affair with SalGiordano that led to a lifelong friendship. The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano's skin is strangely red. Scarpetta's niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knowsan autopsy can reveal the dead's secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue. As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces, and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanationcloser to home that, in her mind, is far more evil"-- Provided by publisher. 20241008. LAKCL