Review: Identity Unknown

Identity Unknown by Patricia Cornwell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Publication date is October 8th.

Wow, just WOW! But I can say that this was a great book. Unfortunately, some of it was a tad repetitive. I could overlook that for the action and suspense that Ms. Cornwell so aptly wrote. The book starts with the death of a child, so if that is a trigger for you, be warned, but it quickly switches over to the death of an old friend of Kay and her husband (more Kays, really). This death is very suspect, and since he was called the ET Whisperer, you can imagine just what everyone thought when they found the naked body in an abandoned theme park with a crop circle around him!

The theme of the book makes me wonder just what our government is doing out there and how much of what Ms. Cornwell writes is the truth.

A wonderful read that really makes you think.

*ARC supplied by the publisher Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group, the author, and NetGalley.

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SYNOPSIS: "Autopsies can reveal the secrets of the dead.

And this victim is sending Scarpetta a message…

Summoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had an intense love affair with Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship.

The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano’s skin is strangely red. Scarpetta’s niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead’s secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue.

As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces, and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that, in her mind, is far more evil . . ."