Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta escaped from the clutches of the Werewolf killer at the conclusion of "Black Notice". Now, Kay finds herself the subject of a criminal investigation, and discovers that the Werewolf murders may extend far back into the darkest corners of her past.We enter The Last Precinct through the reverberating aftershocks of Black Notice, inconceivably finding Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta an object of suspicion -- and criminal investigation.Patricia Cornwell is the Gold Dagger- and Edgar-winning author whose international bestsellers include Black Notice, Point of Origin, Unnatural Exposure, Cause of Death, From Potter's Field, The Body Farm, Cruel and Unusual, All That Remains, Body of Evidence, Postmortem, and the non-Scarpetta novels Hornet's Nest and Southern Cross. Cornwell is the author also of the biography Ruth, a Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham; a children's book, Life's Little Fable; and Scarpetta's Winter Table.
