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Depraved Heart

By: Patricia Cornwell
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
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Publisher's Summary

Number one New York Times best-selling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the 23 engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.

"Dr. Kay Scarpetta ... [is] an awesome force in the field of forensic science" (New York Times Book Review)

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 20 years ago. As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her beloved niece that raise dangerous legal implications, leaving Scarpetta confused, worried, and unable to turn to Lucy, her FBI husband Benton Wesley, or her investigative partner Pete Marino.

Cornwell launches these unforgettable characters on an intensely psychological odyssey that includes the mysterious death of a Hollywood mogul's daughter, aircraft wreckage on the bottom of the sea in the Bermuda triangle, a grisly gift left in the back of a crime scene truck, and videos from the past that threaten to destroy Scarpetta's entire world and everyone she loves.

With the shocking twists, high-wire tension, and cutting-edge forensic detail that she is famous for, Cornwell will captivate listeners and prove yet again why she's the world's number one best-selling crime writer.

©2015 Patricia Cornwell (P)2019 HarperAudio

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The narrator made this hard to listen to. Didn’t know who was speaking and her voice seemed to be “too loud”. Not pleasant listening at all. Please bring back Lorelei.
The story was very dragged out and long winded. Not much body to it. Left me feeling that I missed something.

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very disappointing

where is the Patricia Cornwell that wrote Post-mortem and all the other greats ?? this story dragged on with filling for so many chapters it was hard to keep listening but I did ,them when the tic tock was repeated so many times I was going to scream,the same with go stay. Please come back Patricia.

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Felt like I was yelled at

The story was over-run by awful narration. It was difficult to tell the difference between the characters & it felt like everyone was constantly yelling. The story seemed to stretch on and on but then wrapped up on one chapter without hardly any explanation.

Very poor & disappointing.

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Disappointed

Long time fan, this dragged on and I almost gave up it was so boring

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A boring book

I'm very sad to say but this book has been so boring I almost couldn't be bothered finnish it. I've been a huge fan of this series since the first book came out and I've been waiting in excitement for this book to come out. But the story is very weak this time, hardly anything happens. Too much going over the same stuff from the past. Yes, I understand that it's all very linked together, but previous books have had that and I story that is so exciting that I can't put it away. This one I fell asleep listening and that has never happened before.....

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Slow and boring

I feel like this story was going nowhere, lots of repetition. Narrator is loud and it feels like she’s yelling the entire time.

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