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Void of social duty and fatally bent on mischief. --Mayes v. People 806 III. 306 (1883) Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It s clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago. As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip and then others sent soon after raise dangerous legal implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta and leave her confused worried and not knowing where to turn. She doesn t know whom she can tell--not her FBI husband Benton Wesley or her investigative partner Pete Marino. Not even Lucy.