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Автор Патрисия Корнуэлл
ALSO BY PATRICIA CORNWELL
SCARPETTA SERIES
NONFICTION
ANDY BRAZIL SERIES
WIN GARANO SERIES
BIOGRAPHY
OTHER WORKS
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels.
Dust / Patricia Cornwell.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-101-63642-8
1. Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Medical examiners (Law)—Fiction. 3. Forensic pathologists—Fiction. 4. Murder victims—Massachusetts—Cambridge—Fiction. 5. Serial murders—Washington (D. C. )—Fiction. 6.
Cambridge (Mass. )—Fiction. 7. Washington (D. C. )—Fiction. I. Title.PS3553. 0692D87 2013 2013030232
813'. 54—dc23
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
T. S. ELIOT,
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19
4:02 A. M.
The clangor of the phone violates the relentless roll of rain beating the roof like drumsticks. I sit straight up in bed, my heart leaping in my chest like a startled squirrel as I glance at the illuminated display to see who it is.
