Patricia Cornwell

The Last Precinct

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Virginia’s chief medical examiner, Kay Scarpetta, has been made an object of suspicion — and of a criminal investigation. And her nightmare continues when she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders that nearly destroyed her and those she holds dear may have extended to New York City and into the darkest corners of her past. When a formidable prosecutor, a female assistant district attorney from New York, is brought into the case. Scarpetta must struggle to make what she knows to be the truth prevail against mounting and unnerving evidence to the contrary. Tested in every way, she turns inwards to ask: where do you go when there is nowhere left? The answer is The Last Precinct. Формат издания: 11 см х 18 см.
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  • rosdelorbehas quoted7 years ago
    The more people inbreed, the more they up their chances for genetic glitches.
  • rosdelorbehas quoted7 years ago
    using plumb lines, squeezing or dripping or pouring or projecting blood onto a variety of target surfaces from a variety of angles and heights, and walking through puddles and stamping and slapping, and experimenting. Then, of course, there is the math, the straight-line geometry and trigonometry for figuring out point of origin.
  • rosdelorbehas quoted7 years ago
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    "And the science is?"
    I explain to her that blood is ninety-one percent water. It adheres to the physics of liquid, and it is affected by motion and gravity. A typical drop of blood will fall 25.1 feet per second. Stain diameter increases as the dropping distance increases. Blood dripping into blood produces a corona of spatters around the original pool. Splashed blood produces long, narrow spatters around a central stain, and as blood dries, it goes from bright red to reddish-brown to brown to black. I know experts who have spent their entire careers affixing medicine droppers of blood to ring stands
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