Scarpetta 10 - Black Notice by Patricia Cornwell

Author:Patricia Cornwell [Cornwell, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Detective and Mystery Stories, Mystery & Detective, Virginia, Fiction, Women Sleuths, Stowaways, France, Kay (Fictitious character), Scarpetta, Medical novels, American, Women detectives - Virginia, Mystery fiction, General, Thrillers, Legal stories, Medical examiners (Law), Medical examiners (Law) - Virginia, Political
ISBN: 9780425175408
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2000-11-15T08:00:00+00:00

"Yeah. Why would someone do something weird like that?"

I took a look. There was dried blood on the bottom of her feet, too.

"I'll have to get her under a better light when we get her to the morgue," I said.

The gunshot wound in the front of her neck was plain to see. It was an entrance

wound, and I turned her head just enough to see the exit in the back, angled to

the left. It was this bullet that had hit her carotid artery.

"Did you recover a bullet?" I asked Ham:

"Dug one out of the wall behind the counter," he said, barely able to look at me.

"No shell so far, if there is one."

There wouldn't be if she was shot with a revolver. Pistols ejected their cartridge

cases, which was about the only helpful thing they did when they were used for

violence.

"Where in the Wall?" I asked.

"If you're facing the counter, it would be to the left of where the chair would

have been if she was sitting at the cash register."

"The exit wound is also off to the left," I said. "If they were face to face when she

was shot, you may be looking for a left-handed shooter."

Kim Luong's face was severely lacerated and crushed, the skin split and torn

from blows that had been made by some sort of tool or tools that had a pattern of

round and linear wounds. It appeared she also had been beaten with his fists.

When I palpat?d for fractures, bits of bone crunched beneath my fingertips. Her

teeth were broken and pushed in.

"Hold it here," I directed Marino.

He moved the flashlight as I directed and I gently turned her head to the right

and to the left, palpating her scalp through her hair and checking the back and

sides of her neck. She was covered with more knuckle bruises, and more of the

round and linear injuries, and also striated abrasions here and there.

"Except for pulling down her pants to get her body temp," I said to Ham,

because I had to be sure, "she was just like this?"

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