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An autumn storm has pounded Cambridge all day and is set to play a violent encore into the night. - At Risk (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Dr. Kay Scarpetta moves the tiny glass vial close to candlelight, illuminating a maggot drifting in a poisonous bath of ethanol. - Blow Fly (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. - Cause of Death (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] That morning, summer sulked and gathered darkly over Charlotte, and heat shimmered on pavement. Traffic teemed, people pushing forward to promise as they drove through new construction, and the past was bulldozed away. - Hornet's Nest (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Unique First fit her name like a glove, or at least this was how her mother always put it. Unique came first and was one of a kind. There was no one else like her--and this was a damn good thing, to quote her father, Dr. Ulysses First, who had never understood what genetic malignancy blighted his only child. - Isle of Dogs (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Benton Wesley was taking off his running shoes in my kitchen when I ran to him, my heart tripping over fear and hate and remembered horror. - Point of Origin (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] It is Sunday afternoon and Dr. Kay Scarpetta is in her office at the National Forensic Academy in Hollywood, Florida, where clouds are building, promising another thunderstorm. - Predator (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] I know from Lucy's voice that she is scared. Rarely is my brilliant, forceful, helicopter-piloting, fitness-obsessed, federal-law-enforcement-agent niece scared. - The Last Precinct [Books (First Lines)] Yellow bulldozers hack earth and stone in an old city block that has seen more death than most modern wars, and Kav Scarpetta slows her rental SUV almost to a stop. - Trace (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air. - Unnatural Exposure (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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