03-All That Remains by Patricia Cornwell

Author:Patricia Cornwell [Cornwell, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Women detectives, Medical examiners (Law), Suspense, Serial murders, Mystery & Detective, Medical, Kay (Fictitious character), Richmond (Va.), Scarpetta, Fiction, Women physicians, Serial murder investigation, Forensic pathologists, Crime, Mystery fiction, General, Women Sleuths
ISBN: 9781439149898
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-06-30T07:00:00+00:00

Department of incompetence?" "What I'm accusing the justice Department of is

conspiracy," Pat Harvey said. Groaning, I reached for a cigarette as the din, the

interruptions reached a crescendo. You've lost it, I thought, staring in disbelief at

the TV inside the small medical library in my downtown office. It got only

worse. And my heart was filled with dread as Mrs. Harvey turned her cool stare

to the camera and one by one ran her sword through everyone involved is the

investigation, including me. She spared no one, and there was nothing sacred,

including the detail of the jack of hearts. It had been a gross understatement

when Wesley had said she was uncooperative and a problem. Beneath her armor

of reason was a woman crazed by rage and grief. Numbly I listened as she

plainly and without reservation indicted the police, the FBI, and the Medical

Examiner', Office for complicity in a "cover-up." "They are deliberately burying

the truth about these cases," she concluded, "when the act of doing so serve only

their self-interest at the unconscionable expense of human lives." "What a lot of

shit," muttered Fielding, my deputy chief, sitting nearby. "Which cases?" a

reporter demanded loudly. "The, deaths of your daughter and her boyfriend or

are you referring to the four other couples?" "All of them," Mrs. Harvey replied.

"I'm referring to all of the young men and women hunted down like animals and

murdered." "What is being covered up?" "The identity or identities of those

responsible," as if she knew. "There has been no intervention on the part of the

Justice Department to stop these killings, The reasons are political. A certain

federal agency is protecting its own." "Could you please be more specific?" a

voice shot back. "When my investigation is concluded, I will make a full

disclosure." "At the hearing?" she was asked. "Are you suggesting that the

murder of Deborah and her boyfriend..." "His name is Fred. " It was Bruce

Cheney who had spoken, and suddenly his livid face filled the television screen.

The room went silent. "Fred. His name is Frederick Wilson Cheney." The

father's voice trembled with emotion. "He's not just Debbie's boyfriend He's

dead, murdered, too. My son!" Words caught in his throat, and he hung his

head to hide his tears. I turned off the television, upset and unable to sit still.

Rose had been standing in the doorway, watching. She looked at me and slowly

shook her head. Fielding got up, stretched, and tightened the drawstring of his

surgical greens. "She just screwed herself in front of the whole damn world," he

announced, walking out of the library. I realized as I was pouring myself a cup

of coffee what Pat Harvey had said. I began to really hear it as it replayed inside

my head. "Hunted down like animals and murdered... " Her words had the

sound of something; scripted. They did not strike me as glib, off the cuff or a

figure of speech. A federal agency protecting its own? Hunt. A jack of hearts

like a knight of cups. Someone who is perceived or perceives himself as a

competitor, a defender. One who does battle, Hilda Ozimek had said to me. A

knight.

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