Bone Bed / Patricia Cornwell / 463 pages

Dr Kay Scarpetta is at it again.  Cornwell writes a good story without too much soul searching by Kay this time around.  All the usual characters play a role...Marino, Benton & niece Lucy.  Kay is daunting as a pathologist but those traits sure don't carry over to her personal life and relationships.  That's a little quirky if you ask me.  Sometimes when I read a Scarpetta book, I wonder hmmm what's going to be the grossest part.  This time I think it's when she had to support a dead body and swim with it to carefully load it into the Stokes carrier. Eeuw.  Of course a couple of hours later she's in court with her pin-striped suit and gelled hair.